"I became a novelist because I am interested in exploring the truth. If I wanted to lie to readers, I'd write a memoir."
- Tim Hall, Blogcritics.
"Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning."
- Dorothy Allison, Skin.
"I am an author of fiction, I lie for a living, I am paid to perpetuate a habit I picked up in childhood; the one which leads me to tell stories which are not true."
- A L Kennedy, Edinburgh Book Festival, 2001.
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t."
- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
- William Faulkner
"I'm telling you stories. Trust me."
- Jeannette Winterson, any time, anywhere.
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