“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
— Albert Camus“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
— G.K. Chesterton“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
— Tim O'Brien“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“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”
— George Gordon Byron“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
— Tim O'Brien