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A lie of obsession is still a lie
— Veronica Roth
It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.
— David Mamet
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
— Tayari Jones
Memoirs lie, but fiction tells the truth.
— Philip Roth
Fiction is a lie covering up a deep truth.
— Maria Vargas Llosa
Sometimes you find a lie, and sometimes it finds you.
— Caroline George
I'll remember you, your smile and your lie.
— Randolph Randy Camp
Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.
— Nancy B. Brewer
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
— Janette Rallison
A little truth seasons a lie like salt.
— Jacqueline Carey
Perhaps death is just a big lie.
— Bella James
Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. I
— Ray Bradbury
Fiction is the truth in the lie.
— Stephen King
There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.
— Krisi Keley
Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.
— T.R. Wallace
I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.Homer Simpson — Matt Groening
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
— Tim O'Brien
A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?
— Jerry Pinto
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
— Isabel Allende
Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.
— Geoffrey Wood
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
— Stephen King
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
— Albert Camus
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.
— Lawrence Block
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
— Stephen King
Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming lie.
— Joanne Harris
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
— Halldor Laxness
I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don't actually ever lie.
— Lucia Berlin
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
— Tim O'Brien
The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.
— Renee Conoulty
Machines can't lie," I said, lying through my circuits.
— Adam Christopher
Fiction is the truth inside a lie.
— Stephen King
Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.
— C.J. Anderson
Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
— Dorothy Allison
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
— Neil Gaiman
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
— Helen McCloy