Books Quote by Sarah Arthur

“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.”

— Stephanie Garber

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

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

— Neil Gaiman

“Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's not our…

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Dorothy Allison

“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”

— Carl Henegan

“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

“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using…

— Stacia Kane

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

— Wally Lamb

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Dorothy Allison