Believe Quote by Penny Junor

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

— Stanislaw Lem

I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the truth and…

— Manisha Koirala

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.

— Steve Toltz

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.

— Stephen Colbert

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of…

— Miriam Toews

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

— Umberto Eco

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way…

— Quentin Tarantino

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

— Jean Rostand

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Kevin Kwan

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

— Paul Auster

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember…

— Mark Twain