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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. -- Mike Mills
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. -- Mark Twain
The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages. -- Dana Schutz
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction. -- Dinaw Mengestu
Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing. -- Portia de Rossi
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. -- Ralph Ellison
I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea. -- Anne Michaels
The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality. -- Lance Reddick
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. -- Yann Martel
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible. -- Jill McCorkle
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. -- Chris Chocola
Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver. -- Scott Turow
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed. -- Tom Shales
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience. -- Alex Berenson
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging. -- David Twohy
Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post. -- Kurt Sutter
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. -- Richard Dawkins
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. -- Ethan A. Hitchcock
Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction. -- Robert Kazinsky
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.' -- Tao Lin
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. -- Julia Glass
If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. -- Jodi Picoult
Fiction creating reality. -- Paul Auster
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. -- Jessamyn West
Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good fiction creates its own reality. -- Nora Roberts
Fiction is the evidence that reality exists -- Max W. Miller
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight. -- Joseph Conrad
I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule' -- Syd Mead
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. -- Thomas Carlyle
Reality is in the business of killing off fiction. -- Will Christopher Baer
When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it. -- Aljean Harmetz
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion -- Donna J. Haraway
For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality -- Ryohgo Narita
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense. -- Ray Bradbury
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. -- Young-Ha Kim
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular. -- Heather Dubrow
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ... -- Simone de Beauvoir
I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction. -- Hill Harper
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. -- Oscar Wilde
The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality. -- Ellen Stofan
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. -- Azar Nafisi
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. -- Jean Baudrillard
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it? -- Amelia Barr
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. -- Christopher Fry
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. -- Ralph Peters
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life. -- David Walliams
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. -- Philip Roth
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. -- Jeanette Winterson
The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important. -- S.A. Tawks
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. -- Aldous Huxley
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget. -- Daniel Suarez
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition. -- Michel Onfray
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality. -- Ellen Glasgow
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality. -- Michael Helm
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. -- Isak Dinesen
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? -- Yann Martel
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. -- Kate Wilhelm
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction. -- Steven Soderbergh
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. -- J. G. Ballard
the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality. -- Penelope Lively
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. -- Nic Pizzolatto
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. -- Donna J. Haraway
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive. -- Karen Russell
If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don't need to your imagination -- Ryohgo Narita
Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real. -- Jose Mourinho
What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. -- Claude Calame
As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. -- Red Smith
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist. -- Martin Parr
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. -- J. G. Ballard
If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it. -- Jane Alison
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event. -- Joe Berlinger
The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality. -- Geoff Mulgan

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