Horror Quote by C. Robert Cales

“Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.”

— Lucian Barnes

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

“No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds…

— Anthony Trollope

“It’s ironic that they swear to tell the truth on a book brimming with so many fictions, myths and errors.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”

— Ben Mezrich

“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”

— Thomas C. Foster

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.”

— Dan Brown

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous