The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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.
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
I'm almost able to be more honest by lying. By making everything up, I'm able to say what I really want to.
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
