Active Quote by William Gibson

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

— William Gibson

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

— Joseph O'Neill

Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures,…

— John Hodgman

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

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

— Khaled Hosseini

Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? -…

— Jonathan Miles

“FICTION is a series of unintended coincidence,confabulation,and quasi-lucid lying made plausible enough for an author and a reader to cohabitate for a secret, brief…

— J.D. Brayton

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

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 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

The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore,…

— Rosa Montero