Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.
I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.
In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.
I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.