“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”

“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”

“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.”

“"Non-fiction", on the other hand, declares itself to be the carrier of fact, an expression of reality, and thus of truth. Why then does most fact-based work have a remarkably short shelf life? The reply might be that additional facts come along. That we are learning all the time. In that case, it was never an expression of reality or truth. And even if the facts are overtaken, the arguments built upon them should not date with such terrifying rapidity. Decade-old serious "non-fiction" often seems arcane, irrelevant. The written style itself seems to become old-fashioned. Two-centuries-old decent "fiction" on the other hand can easily remain fresh.”

“A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.”

“Almost everything in the pop culture lexicon of vampirism is basically fiction—and fiction is the art of telling entertaining lies for money.”

“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”

“No one in life can ever match fiction”

“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact.”