Fiction Quote by Robert James Waller

“Do writers of fiction tell lies or just tall stories?”

— Clive Owen Barry

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats,…

— Hal Duncan

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care…

— Ethan Canin

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

“There is a difference between fiction and nonfiction deeper than technique or intention. I value both but genuinely believe that fiction can tell a…

— Dorothy L. Sayersthy Allison

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— Wilkie Collins

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

— Gao Xingjian

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

“[E]verything is fiction. When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and weave a…

— Keith Ridgway

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I don't tell lies. I don't need to.

— Carl Froch

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and…

— Jerome K. Jerome