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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
— William Faulkner
The aim of fiction is honest and absolute truth.
— Anton Chekhov
Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
— Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Even if that is the truth," Derkein said, "what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?
— Alecia Stone
In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.
— Henry Martin
All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.
— Witi Ihimaera
...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.
— G.E. Moore
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.
— Roberto Benigni
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 is often of no consequence.
— Ross Turner
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
— Arundhati Roy
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
— William Faulkner
And who is to say the truth can't be a miracle?
— Michelle Frost
Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.
— Sanjo Jendayi
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
— Neil Gaiman
The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention
— Barbara Kingsolver
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
— Khaled Hosseini
Fiction is the microscope of truth.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
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
All you need do, Bernie,"she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, "is present the truth as fiction.
— James Purdy
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
— John Hodgman
I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.
— Amanda Schull
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
— Julian Schnabel
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
— Kinky Friedman
Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.
— Mark Twain
The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities - the truth isn't.
— Caroline George
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
— Tim O'Brien
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
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
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
— Lisa Scottoline
To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
— Tim O'Brien
The great cause of fiction is to weave a bag to carry truth.
— Penelope Wilcock
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
I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.
— Alistair Cross
But when it comes to fiction, the writer's only responsibility is to look for the truth inside his own heart.
— Stephen King
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
— Pseudonymous Bosch
Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.
— Tanna Marie Angers
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
— Mark Twain
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
— Anton Chekhov
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
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.
— Ken Andersen
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
— Stephen King
Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.George Saunders
The Bookseller — C. Robert Cales
We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.
— Victor Hugo
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
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
— Albert Camus
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 the truth in the lie.
— Stephen King
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
Christian Fiction is like a parable. The story is made up, but the truth is brought to life. Enjoy the story, but savor the truth.
— Mary Ann Brantley
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
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
— Dorothy Allison
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see.- Lady Lalaigne — Jeanine Henning
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Fiction is the truth inside a lie.
— Stephen King
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 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 fiction is true.
— Kinky Friedman
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
— Stephen King
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
— Doris Lessing
