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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
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
— Miriam Toews
There is more truth in fiction than reality
— L.M.Rozycki
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
In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
— Wallace Stegner
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
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
Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.
— Nathaniel Robert Winters
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
We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.
— Val Edward Simone
The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.
— N.J. Paige
Truth or dare ... truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress) — Belinda McBride
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
— Tim O'Brien
There are elements of truth in all great fiction
— Teresa Medeiros
All you need do, Bernie,"she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, "is present the truth as fiction.
— James Purdy
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
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
Love at first sight might be fiction, but most fiction has a grain of truth in it, right?
— Pauline Creeden
There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.
— Krisi Keley
In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.
— Mario Van Peebles
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
Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.
— Rabindranath Tagore
In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth
— Richard Gerber
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
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
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
— George R R Martin
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 Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
— Rudyard Kipling
To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
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
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
There is at least one truth in every myth.
— Suzy Kassem
In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?
— Joanna Eliot
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
Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
— Halldor Laxness
I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.
— Alistair Cross
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
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 lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.
— Renee Conoulty
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
— Alison Croggon
Even fiction - perhaps especially fiction - has more truth in it than the author knows.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fiction is the truth in the lie.
— Stephen King