Books Quote by Laura Atchison

“LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester: “Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on…

— Laura Atchison

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for…

— Horace Walpole

“This book is for women trying to find their "right"place, when so much they have had faith in has let them down.”

— D. Adiba

“Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.”

— Marilyn Celeste Morris

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

— Wally Lamb

“I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more…

— Richard Ford

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must…

— Charles Churchill

“Fiction allows you to go deeper into the truth. You can put anything down and you can take chances.”

— Peter Matthieson

“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.”

— Nathaniel Robert Winters

“Fiction is better than Truth”

— Krishna Verma

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…

— Jane Smiley