Stranger Than Fiction Quotes

25 Stranger Than Fiction quotes by 20 unique authors

• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron
• Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. — Frederic Raphael
• Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction — Carol Alt
• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. — William Randolph Hearst
• I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. — Julian Schnabel
• Real life is much stranger than fiction, man. — Mike D
• Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. — John Hodgman
• The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating. — Greg Cox
• Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner
• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,… — W. Somerset Maugham
• When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate… — Bill Vaughan
• Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman
• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain
• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain
• Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How… — Lord Byron
• Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. — H. L. Mencken
• Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. — David Benioff
• You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it… — Craig Silvey

Who Wrote These Stranger Than Fiction Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 25 Stranger Than Fiction Quotes as follows:

• 4 Stranger Than Fiction Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 Stranger Than Fiction Quotes by Lord Byron
• 2 Stranger Than Fiction Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by William Randolph Hearst
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Richard Posner
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Neil Gaiman
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Mike D
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Julian Schnabel
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by John Hodgman
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Hiromu Arakawa
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Greg Cox
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Frederic Raphael
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Dean Koontz
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by David Benioff
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Craig Silvey
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Carol Alt
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Bill Vaughan
• 1 Stranger Than Fiction Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle