“a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)”
“It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.”
“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”
“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
“Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.”
“Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?”