Fiction Quote by Francis Bacon

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

— Leo Rosten

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

— Chris Bohjalian

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“If we accept the premise that we’re always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to make good…

— James S.A. Corey

In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With nonfiction you…

— Chelsea Martin

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that…

— Mark Twain

Expressing truth is hard work.

— Timothy Noah

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

— Mark Twain

“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we…

— Siri Hustvedt

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

— Leigh Michaels

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster