Fiction Quote by William Faulkner

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

— Khaled Hosseini

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Tim O'Brien

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 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

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

— Kevin Kwan

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

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

— Dorothy Allison

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

— Jon Franklin