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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

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well. — Christopher Rice

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth. — S.A. Tawks

Sometimes you find a lie, and sometimes it finds you. — Caroline George

There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction. — T. Scott McLeod

I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does. — Dean Koontz

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

[ ... ] suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth — Blake Crouch

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. — Thomas Gray

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

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 for a man, it's what makes him a man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

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

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction. — J.G. Holland

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. — Eleanor Antin

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie. — Krisi Keley

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

I could've gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered.
My brother died because someone was jealous. — Laura Anderson Kurk

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

The truth remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread its
wings and fly away.
-TARA — Amita Trasi

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

Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other. — Brittany Cavallaro

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth. — Debra Moffitt

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh. — Laura Kreitzer

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. — Walter Dean Myers

All the real secrets are buried, and only ghosts speak the truth. — Anthony Hyde

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it. — Margaret McMullan

Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction. — Michael Wall

Do as you would be done by — Jennifer Dance

There is no truth, only science and fiction. — Steven Brewis

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness. — Hilary Mantel

The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. — Richard Bunning

When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it's worth fighting to spread. — Caroline George

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

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth — Richard Gerber

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

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

We're all the same. We all have the means to save ourselves and carry ourselves home. — T.A. Miles

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

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

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught. — Barbara Delinsky

What you believe determines the way you feel and act ... but it doesn't change the truth. — Steve Holt

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

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do ... — Steven J. Carroll

One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable. — John H. Alexander

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it. — Caroline Llewellyn

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

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. — Edward Albee

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. — Mira Nair

And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood — J. Tyson-Capper

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

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

It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of autobiography. — Santosh Kumar Das

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again. — David Housholder

Fact and fiction are different truths. — Patricia MacLachlan

I find it more and more difficult to write fiction, when the truth has become so unbelievable. --DP Vent — D.P. Vent

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth? — Noorilhuda

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

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

[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

Truth is mighty and will prevail. — Daniel P. Douglas

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

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage

We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words. — Orna Ross

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. — Ray McKinnon

Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death. — N.J. Paige

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what."
~'Dr. Michael C. Anders, — Stephanie Osborn

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

Men will continue to suffer from their own connivance, until they recognise and act upon the truth within themselves. — Georgina Zuvela

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

Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder — Helene Munson

Truth? How can you get truth out of fiction?"
Kieler from Zotikas: Attraction and Repulsion
Episode 3 — Tom Bruno

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. — Ann Marie Aguilar

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