Books Quote by Paul Auster

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

— Italo Calvino

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

— Tim O'Brien

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Neil Gaiman

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

— Dorothy Allison

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

— Dorothy Allison

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

— Stephen King

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

— Dorothy Allison

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or…

— George R. R. Martin