Quotes About Fiction

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

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

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

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

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.