Quotes About Fiction

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

All Stories are True.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living in the town.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.