Bits Quote by Francois Truffaut

Real life is crazier than fiction.

— Lauren Bowles

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

— Peter Mullan

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like…

— Garrison Keillor

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have…

— Ethan Canin

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition.

— Jo Beverley

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go…

— Noah Baumbach

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

— Raymond Buckland