Truth Fiction Quotes
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Truth Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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Life isn't meant to be believable. It's meant to be magical. Haven't you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction.
— Rebecca Serle
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
— Tayari Jones
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
When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.
— Barbara Delinsky
Truth is always duller than fiction.
— Piers Paul Read
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
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
— Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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
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
The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.
— Matthew Culberson
Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet".
— Christopher J. Pumphrey
Some day ... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
— James Jones
Fiction is a lie covering up a deep truth.
— Maria Vargas Llosa
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
— Roberto Benigni
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
The truth is often of no consequence.
— Ross Turner
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
— Muriel Spark
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
And who is to say the truth can't be a miracle?
— Michelle Frost
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.
— Larry Itejere
There is at least one truth in every myth.
— Suzy Kassem
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
I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.
— Dean Koontz
In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?
— Joanna Eliot
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
— Dorothy Allison
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
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
— Mark Twain
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
— William Randolph
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
Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.
— Ann Marie Aguilar
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
— Mark Twain
Truth? How can you get truth out of fiction?"
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Kieler from Zotikas: Attraction and Repulsion
Episode 3 — Tom Bruno
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
Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.
— Ken Andersen
I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
— Elia Suleiman
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
— Paul Auster
I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.
— Alistair Cross
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
— Halldor Laxness
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
— Stephen King
What you believe determines the way you feel and act ... but it doesn't change the truth.
— Steve Holt
But when it comes to fiction, the writer's only responsibility is to look for the truth inside his own heart.
— Stephen King
Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.
— Shauna Singh Baldwin
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
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
— Joss Whedon
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
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
— Albert Camus
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
— Marquis De Sade
Fact and fiction are different truths.
— Patricia MacLachlan
In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction.
— Laila Lalami
I find it more and more difficult to write fiction, when the truth has become so unbelievable. --DP Vent
— D.P. Vent
It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.
— Patrick Rothfuss
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
— Christopher Fry
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
— George R R Martin
Truth is stranger than fiction...
— Mark Twain
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.
— Max Barry
It's not difficult to be encyclopedic in a work of fiction; it's damned difficult to be encyclopedic, I suppose, in truth.
— John Barth
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
— Gao Xingjian
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
— Mark Twain
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
— Alison Croggon
It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.
— Allen Morris Jones
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
— Mark Twain
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
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
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
I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.
— Joseph DiFrancesco
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
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
— Anton Chekhov
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
George Saunders
The Bookseller — C. Robert Cales
To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
Do you want the truth or fiction?
— Jon Chopan