More quotes by Tim O'Brien

"A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written."
"A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries."
"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."
"Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor."
"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."