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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
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
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
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
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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
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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 remains quiet inside us,floundering like a battered bird,desperately wanting to spread itswings and fly away.
-TARA — Amita Trasi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention
— Barbara Kingsolver
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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
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? How can you get truth out of fiction?"Kieler from Zotikas: Attraction and Repulsion
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