#on-fiction

"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.."

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

"A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written."

"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."

"I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story."

"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."