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Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

It's kind of strange- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it. — Robert James Waller

People believe what they are told. — Jacqueline Carey

What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share. — Penny Kittle

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets. — Diane Duane

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine ... and then make them plausible. — Chris Bohjalian

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying? — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths. — Wally Lamb

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan. — Noah Hawley

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. — Anthony Trollope

Thinking before writing how I feel. That's how I'm able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one write something like a fake smile ? — Muhammad Faizan Khan.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell

Sometimes you have to tell a a bunch of lies to get at the truth. — Stella Atrium

Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies
In wisdom :therefore study to be wise. — Horace

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies. — Gore Vidal

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies — Glen Carter

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. — Henrik Ibsen

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws. — Elizabeth Isaacs

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. — Evan Esar

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman

More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head. — Terry Pratchett

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next. — Matthew Specktor

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great. — Bryan Way

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool. — Sallie Tisdale

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. — Aljean Harmetz

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself. — George Bernard Shaw

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you've got to get your story straight! — Blair Thornburgh

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing ... — Lucy Poate Stebbins

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies! — Simone De Beauvoir

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. — William Trevor

You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it. — Geraldine Solon

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves. — Carla H. Krueger

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies. — Jonathan Stroud

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others. — Sherwood Anderson

She asked me the definition of beauty. So I told her name in my reply! — Avijeet Das

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

He was after all, a novelist ... and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay. — Stephen King

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. — V.S. Naipaul

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing. — Hilary Mantel

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies — Bangambiki Habyarimana

At chaos' core lies the invitation. — Gina Greenlee

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do. — Brian K. Vaughan

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing. — Philip Pullman