Display Quote by John Updike

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

— Marilynne Robinson

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr