Tim O'brien

Quotes

• “A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertain...”
• “Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the...”
• “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
• “Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.”
• “A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”