T. C. Boyle Quotes

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

All stories are true.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.