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Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised. — Syed Arshad

The aim of fiction is honest and absolute truth. — Anton Chekhov

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

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. — Selena Kitt

The best fiction captures the truth of real life. — Josh Lanyon

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

When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please. — H. Rider Haggard

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

Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth. — Leslie Feinberg

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

There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction. — T. Scott McLeod

Logan must survive. That is the only truth. The only goal. My sole mission. — Siobhan Davis

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story. — Nathaniel Robert Winters

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. — G.E. Moore

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — G.K. Chesterton

The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The truth is often of no consequence. — Ross Turner

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ... — Susan Sontag

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. — John McGahern

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

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. — Eleanor Antin

Fiction is founded on truth ... unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. — Agatha Christie

Love at first sight might be fiction, but most fiction has a grain of truth in it, right? — Pauline Creeden

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. — Henry James

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true. — Mark Twain

Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth. — Robert Crossley

True story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction. — John Gribbin

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth. — Chelsea Cain

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. — Jeremy Northam

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

I've become remarkably good at blocking impossibly bizarre happenings from my consciousness. Denial can be a beautiful thing. — M.A. George

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

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor. — Amanda Schull

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it. — Margaret McMullan

Sometimes even lovers of fiction can be satisfied only by the truth. I — Michael Chabon

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman

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

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

The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten. — Karen Azinger

The great cause of fiction is to weave a bag to carry truth. — Penelope Wilcock

Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that's the case, we should get busy returning them. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I write what I feel, fiction with a twist of truth. I don't write because I want to, I write because I have to. — Jack Tate

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer

To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin

People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth. — Salman Rushdie

Good Fiction hangs a story of a framework or lies that tells an emotional truth. — Marie White Small

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

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. — Mark Twain

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Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. — Ann Marie Aguilar

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

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

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

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. — Anton Chekhov

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King

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

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

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

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

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction. — Laila Lalami

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth. — Shauna Singh Baldwin

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

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

But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth. — Leslie Cockburn

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention — Barbara Kingsolver

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

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury

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

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. — Diane Setterfield

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed! — John T. Montgomery

Rumors are the children of truth. — Danny M. Cohen

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

Fiction is the microscope of truth. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth. — Paul Auster

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. — G.K. Chesterton

There are elements of truth in all great fiction — Teresa Medeiros

Truth has the structure of a fiction. — Lacan

What child didn't wish to know if his bedtime stories were the stuff of fiction or of truth? — V.E Schwab

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

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

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. — Doris Lessing