Fiction Quote by Jon Weisman Download Open image “Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.” — Jon Weisman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Sometimes Stranger Stranger than fiction Truth Truth is Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author. — Stuart Taylor Copy Share Image
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird — Erik Meyer Copy Share Image
There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are practically the only people… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax.… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
