Fiction Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

— Libba Bray

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is…

— Margaret Atwood

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Neil Gaiman

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges…

— Muriel Spark

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

— Rudyard Kipling