Books Quote by Gao Xingjian

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

— Katherine Center

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

— Azar Nafisi

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

— Mira Nair

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.

— Ioan Gruffudd

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens…

— Anne Sexton

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

— Isabel Allende

“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.”

— Marcel Proust

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

— Mark Twain

Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan

“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it’s more…

— Dean Koontz

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

— Paul Auster