This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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.
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