Quotes About Fiction

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.

Stories are invented as you go along...

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

Writing is about truth, whether it be fiction or a school essay. Don't give in and 'fake it till you make it.' Criticize what upsets you.

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

There is no truth, only science and fiction.

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.

I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.

A story is just a convoluted lie...with some hidden truths.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns

Too many poets are insufficiently interested in story. Their poems could be improved if they gave in more to the strictures of fiction: the establishment of a clear dramatic situation, and a greater awareness that first-person narrators are also characters and must be treated as such by their authors. The true lyric poet, of course, is exempt from this. But many poets wrongly think they are lyric poets.

She didn't really die. Just got skewered for laughs, left for dead in some steaming pile of gore with her current boy toy.