Truth Or Fiction Quotes
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Truth Or Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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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
Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.
— Syed Arshad
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
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
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
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
— John McGahern
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
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
It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.
— Allen Morris Jones
I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.
— Joseph DiFrancesco
Do you want the truth or fiction?
— Jon Chopan
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
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 there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.
— Dean Koontz
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
What child didn't wish to know if his bedtime stories were the stuff of fiction or of truth?
— V.E Schwab
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
— Nadine Gordimer
Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.
— Lucian Barnes
Truth or dare ... truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress) — Belinda McBride
There's no right or wrong way. There's only the truth.
— Siobhan Davis
All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human.
— Richard Bunning
Good Fiction hangs a story of a framework or lies that tells an emotional truth.
— Marie White Small
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
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
— Charles De Lint
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
— Marquis De Sade
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
To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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
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
