Alan Moore Quotes

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

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

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.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

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

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

And I'm the worst liar of all time.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.

All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.