Source: Short fiction, To Rescue Tanelorn... (1962), p. 474
“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”
“Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.”
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Context: We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”
Source: The Judges
“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.”
Source: The Pact
" The Grandmother http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson/14415", st. 8 (1864)
“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie”
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
“In the lie of truth lies the truth.”
“Truth and Lie,” p. 66
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
“All liars… lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”
Source: The Memory of Love
In an interview with David L. Ulin to Los Angeles Times - Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/10/gay-talese-talks-with-david-l-ulin.html (October 15, 2010)
“Who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.”
1 Timothy 2:4 (as quoted in World English Bible http://biblehub.com/web/1_timothy/2.htm)
First Epistle to Timothy
