Fiction Quote by Scarlett Thomas

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about…

— Clark Zlotchew

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

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

— Libba Bray

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of #storytelling.

— Jeremy Northam

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for…

— Junot Diaz

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's…

— Joanna Scott