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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
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
— Bruno Bettelheim
Truth is always duller than fiction.
— Piers Paul Read
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
— Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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
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 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
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
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
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
— Stephen King
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
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
Your mind is your bitch," he says. "The truth is you can teach it to do anything. You have to program your brain to your commands, not other people's.
— Cyma Rizwaan Khan
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
— Charlotte Lennox
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
— Mark Twain
Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real. — Cao Xueqin
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
— Anton Chekhov
It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully.
— Wayne Martindale
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
— William Randolph
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
— Albert Camus
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
— Alison Croggon
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
— Mark Twain
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
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
Truth is stranger than fiction...
— Mark Twain
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
— George R R Martin
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
— Christopher Fry
Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.
— Shauna Singh Baldwin
I find it more and more difficult to write fiction, when the truth has become so unbelievable. --DP Vent
— D.P. Vent
In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction.
— Laila Lalami
Fact and fiction are different truths.
— Patricia MacLachlan
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
— Marquis De Sade
It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.
— Allen Morris Jones
And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.
— David Housholder
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
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
— Joss Whedon
It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Do you want the truth or fiction?
— Jon Chopan
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
We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.
— Victor Hugo
