A Quote by Jerry Pinto

A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

Jerry Pinto

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Jerry Pinto
English - Novelist
Born: 1966

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Tim O'Brien

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

Joseph Goebbels

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

John Milton

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Francis Bacon

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.

William Shakespeare

For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the "lie," because when you look closer, every "lie" - and I say that with quotation marks - can be much more complicated. Because that is what fiction is: it's probably the least important thing in the world. It's rich, but it is put-on, it passes the time. It borrows from the world, but it does not invent it.

Sergio Chejfec

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.

Joanna Scott

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

Lord Byron

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Janette Rallison

The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness.

Ralph Waldo Trine

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

Jonah Lehrer

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

Martin Luther

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

Maya Angelou

In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.

Michael Ondaatje

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

Michael Jackson

I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

Edwidge Danticat

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