Fiction Quote by Leo Rosten Download Open image “Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.” — Leo Rosten ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Make Sense Stranger Stranger than fiction Than Truth Truth is Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain 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
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird — Erik Meyer Copy Share Image
The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author. — Stuart Taylor Copy Share Image
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and… — Leo Rosten 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
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