In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
Interpretation
Fiction reveals deeper truths about reality by using imaginative storytelling.
This quote by Lauren Groff suggests that while fiction may be composed of made-up stories and characters, it often conveys profound truths about human experiences, emotions, and societal issues. By presenting lies, or fictional elements, storytellers can explore and express truths that resonate with readers on a deeper level, allowing for insights that might not be possible through direct representation of reality.
In practice
A writer's workshop discussing the interplay between fact and fiction.
And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.
Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.
I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the activity of God and His angels. I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically. I believe that true education in the art of dance is education of the whole man.
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.
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