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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

Truth is always duller than fiction. — Piers Paul Read

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

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

And who is to say the truth can't be a miracle? — Michelle Frost

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

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

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. — Marquis De Sade

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. — Alan Moore

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus

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

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

Fact and fiction are different truths. — Patricia MacLachlan

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

People believe in everything except the reality. — Min Kim

I find it more and more difficult to write fiction, when the truth has become so unbelievable. --DP Vent — D.P. Vent

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

Truth is stranger than fiction... — Mark Twain

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie. — Rick DeStefanis

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

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

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. — Mark Twain