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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 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

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

It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger. — Avi

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better. — Jon Weisman

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien

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

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. — Jodi Picoult

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

How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didn't occasionally say yes? — F.D. Lee

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

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

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth. — Geoffrey Wood

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

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record, — Doris Lessing

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

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. — Edward Albee

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

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. — Mira Nair

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction. — Oakley Hall

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

I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit it's the truth. — Jack Tate

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

A truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought — Tami Hoag

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction. — Sarah Moon

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy. — Patrick Rothfuss

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives. — Dorothy Allison

Do you want the truth or fiction? — Jon Chopan

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people. — Evan Meekins

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

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth. — Johnny Rich

To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.
George Saunders
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