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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. — William Faulkner

The aim of fiction is honest and absolute truth. — Anton Chekhov

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. — Richard Russo

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The most outrageous tale you can tell is somebody's truth. — Marty Rubin

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to. — Casey Neistat

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts. — John Green

Logan must survive. That is the only truth. The only goal. My sole mission. — Siobhan Davis

Even if that is the truth," Derkein said, "what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead? — Alecia Stone

Fiction is the lie that illuminates a greater truth. — Kevin Fox

In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three. — Henry Martin

All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller. — Witi Ihimaera

The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth. — S.A. Tawks

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. — G.E. Moore

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. — Roberto Benigni

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — G.K. Chesterton

The truth is often of no consequence. — Ross Turner

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — Arundhati Roy

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. — William Faulkner

And who is to say the truth can't be a miracle? — Michelle Frost

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar. — Mal Peet

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record, — Doris Lessing

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes. — Sanjo Jendayi

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. — Neil Gaiman

The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention — Barbara Kingsolver

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

Fiction is the microscope of truth. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction. — Oakley Hall

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. — Jeremy Northam

Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King

All you need do, Bernie,"she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, "is present the truth as fiction. — James Purdy

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. — John Hodgman

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. — Abraham Cowley

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor. — Amanda Schull

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. — Julian Schnabel

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth. — Chelsea Cain

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true. — Mark Twain

The truth is stranger than fiction ... and often more incriminating. — Greg Cox

The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities - the truth isn't. — Caroline George

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. — Tim O'Brien

Your mind is your bitch," he says. "The truth is you can teach it to do anything. You have to program your brain to your commands, not other people's. — Cyma Rizwaan Khan

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true. — Jonathan Swift

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing. — Lisa Scottoline

To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth. — Tim O'Brien

Why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true — Kinky Friedman

The great cause of fiction is to weave a bag to carry truth. — Penelope Wilcock

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. — Megan McCafferty

I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people. — Alistair Cross

But when it comes to fiction, the writer's only responsibility is to look for the truth inside his own heart. — Stephen King

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional. — Pseudonymous Bosch

Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away. — Tanna Marie Angers

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. — Mark Twain

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. — Anton Chekhov

You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it. — Dean Koontz

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach. — Hunter S. Thompson

Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication. — Ken Andersen

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King

Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.
George Saunders
The Bookseller — C. Robert Cales

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance. — Victor Hugo

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling

Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives. — Dorothy Allison

Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done. Do you like it? — Mark Twain

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction. — Laila Lalami

Fiction is the truth in the lie. — Stephen King

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth. — Tim O'Brien

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. — Lauren Groff

Christian Fiction is like a parable. The story is made up, but the truth is brought to life. Enjoy the story, but savor the truth. — Mary Ann Brantley

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed! — John T. Montgomery

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth — Dorothy Allison

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation. — J.I. Packer

Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see.
- Lady Lalaigne — Jeanine Henning

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. — Clive Barker

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth. — Paul Auster

Fiction is the truth inside a lie. — Stephen King

The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction. — Renee Conoulty

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

The best fiction is true. — Kinky Friedman

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. — Doris Lessing

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away. — Kaui Hart Hemmings