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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

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 been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

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 writing is all about telling the truth.