In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a…

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a…

— Gail Honeyman

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”

— Ben Monopoli

“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day, but I…

— Francis Spufford

They say truth is stranger than fiction. If that's true, it's stranger than it would be if it wasn't.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true”

— Kinky Friedman

“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.”

— Cao Xueqin

“The best fiction is true.”

— Kinky Friedman

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

— Tim Crouch

“I want you. God, I want you. But only if it's real.”

— Maya Banks

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

— John Lennon

If you want a Real Man sit up straight close your legs and pay attention :)

— Frenchqueen