Quotes about Fiction

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

We live in interesting times. Information overload can make it difficult to sift fact from fiction.

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.