Assume Quote by Celeste Ng

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

— Richard Posner

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

— Charles de Lint

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction

— Carol Alt

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges…

— Muriel Spark

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your…

— Cassandra Clare

“Ignorance of fact is not evidence for fiction.”

— David Silverman

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I prefer fact to fiction.

— Richard Attenborough

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

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

— Tom Wolfe

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien