A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
- William FaulknerFiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
- Gabriel García MárquezFiction is the truth inside the lie.
- Stephen KingTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn`t.
- Mark TwainFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonFor truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
- Lord ByronThe only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
- Herman WoukThe reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
- Jim RohnFiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
- Margaret Culkin BanningImagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life
- Simone Weil