“Good fiction makes the truth believable.”
“Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
“Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.”
“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”