Quotes About Fiction

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.