Fiction Quote by John Irving

“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit…

— Jack Tate

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived…

— Val Edward Simone

“Writers are a strange breed. After all, we hear voices in our heads all the time, and sometimes, we even talk to them as…

— Stevie J. Cole

“Fiction writing feels more honest to me.”

— David James Duncan

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres -…

— Sara Sheridan

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction…

— Paul Harding

“Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.”

— Dorothy Allison

“If you want to tell the truth, write fiction”

— Joshua Halberstam

“Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.”

— Lucian Barnes