The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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.
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.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.
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