Fiction Quote by Tim O'Brien

“A model is a lie that helps you see the truth”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I guess it’s easier to believe a lie that helps you than a truth that doesn’t,” I remarked sadly.”

— J M Northup

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

— Miriam Toews

A lie is not enough to prove you are a liar. Lie helps people to forget about the things you have done in past…

— Nishan Panwar

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

— Stephen King

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

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

“A,bee,flying,to,the,end,of,the,world, To,find,one,flower,wherein,to,lie,curled, Is,a,Fiction,is,a,lie, That,will,keep,God,in,the,sky.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

“That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in…

— Thomas Pynchon

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

— Neil Gaiman