A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction. — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.” — Ken Andersen Copy Share Image
My thing is to try to tell the truth as honestly as possible. For me, the weight is, how can I tell… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“(M)emories are often amalgams of truth and fiction, sewn together in our heads by our subconscious to support our personal beliefs about… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and… — Janet Leigh Copy Share Image
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I contend that one is likely to find more truth in fiction. A good painting after all is more truthful than a… — Vince Vawter Copy Share Image
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that… — Momus Copy Share Image
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“She loved people, she said, especially those in books, which was largely how she knew them, but she declined to associate with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The historical truth is a fiction. OK, I did whatever I could to find out what happened from surviving friends, family and… — William Pryor Copy Share Image
“In theory, if some holy book misrepresented reality, its disciples would sooner or later discover this, and the text’s authority would be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
“Because the truth is, fiction is one of the most effective time travel machines in the universe and always has been.” — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.” — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
“In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?” — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
