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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease. — Rabindranath Tagore

In every truth there is non-truth, in every fiction there is non-fiction. — Thomas H. Ward

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

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

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R R Martin

People believe in everything except the reality. — Min Kim

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

I liked stories. I liked the way they had the power to make sense of life. — Candi Sary

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

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

Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too. — Catherine Lowell

Fiction is the truth in the lie. — Stephen King