“A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.”
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“Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.”
“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”
“Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.”
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”