Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into 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.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
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.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.