Home » Quote » William Faulkner » „A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.“ „A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.“ — William Faulkner Tags:Truth Related quotes „He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.“ — Stephen King „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.“ — Franz Kafka „When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.“ — Jordan Peterson
„A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.“ — William Faulkner Tags:Truth