“A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?”
“Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.”
“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”
“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”
“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”
“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”