Fiction Quotes - Page 15

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'
'For fun?'
'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

The best fiction is true.

It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.

One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true - without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.