Bizarre Quote by Carl Hiaasen

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's…

— Walter Kirn

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

— Mira Nair

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc. And my…

— Rob Nixon

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan