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Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful. -- Mira Nair
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. -- Edward Albee
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 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
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
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. -- Ray McKinnon
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction. -- Alexandra Kerry
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction. -- Janet Leigh
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. -- Graham Greene
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. -- Ralph Ellison
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
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth. -- Michio Kaku
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. -- John Updike
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted. -- Colum McCann
Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. -- Lactantius
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel. -- Margaret Atwood
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it. -- George R. R. Martin
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us. -- Joanna Scott
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine. -- J. G. Ballard
Fiction is the microscope of truth. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Truth is always duller than fiction. -- Piers Paul Read
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. -- Stephen King
Truth is not always injured by fiction. -- Charlotte Lennox
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. -- Lord Byron
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. -- Thomas Gray
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. -- Marquis de Sade
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. -- Lord Byron
The truth was stranger than the official fiction. -- Dean Koontz
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. -- Lord Byron
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain
In some ways truth is stranger than fiction. -- Mario Van Peebles
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction -- David Mitchell
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. -- Mark Twain
there are elements of truth in all great fiction -- Teresa Medeiros
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. -- Anton Chekhov
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth -- Dorothy Allison
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. -- Neil Gaiman
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. -- Albert Camus
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. -- Frederic Raphael
There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. -- Jeff Feuerzeig
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. -- Leo Rosten
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating. -- Greg Cox
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible. -- Horace
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. -- William Randolph Hearst
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. -- William Randolph Hearst
Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring. -- Charlaine Harris
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach. -- Hunter S. Thompson
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. -- Edward Albee
There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie. -- Krisi Keley
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. -- Dorothy Allison
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. -- Doris Lessing
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better. -- Jon Weisman
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. -- David Benioff
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. -- Edmund Burke
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. -- Lauren Groff
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. -- Mira Nair
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation. -- J. I. Packer
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular. -- Heather Dubrow
I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction. -- Sarah Moon
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth. -- Paul Auster
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth. -- Chelsea Cain
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. -- Mark Twain
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. -- Agatha Christie
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. -- Francis Bacon
The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author -- Stuart Taylor
In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth. -- Wallace Stegner
The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth. -- S.A. Tawks
In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth -- Richard Gerber
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. -- George R. R. Martin
Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth. -- Johnny Rich
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record, -- Doris Lessing
Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story. -- Nathaniel Robert Winters
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. -- Azar Nafisi
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. -- Mark Twain
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. -- H. L. Mencken
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. -- Khaled Hosseini
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. -- Christopher Fry
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. -- John Hodgman
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. -- Mark Twain
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. -- Richard Savage
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. -- Henry James
I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor. -- Amanda Schull
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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
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. -- Julian Barnes
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them ... -- Susan Sontag
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. -- Eleanor Antin
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. -- Stephen King
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship -- Kinky Friedman
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. -- Arundhati Roy
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. -- Roberto Benigni
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. -- Mark Twain
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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
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 is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. -- Rudyard Kipling
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
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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
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
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
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. -- Brad Holland
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
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, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
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

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