Quotes About Fiction

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

The truth is not so good a story.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.