Book Quote by Aristotle

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

— David Mitchell

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

— Rod Serling

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

— Francis Bacon

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

— Candice Millard

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

“FICTION is a series of unintended coincidence,confabulation,and quasi-lucid lying made plausible enough for an author and a reader to cohabitate for a secret, brief…

— J.D. Brayton

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes…

— John McGahern

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

— Richard Posner

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan