Quotes About Reality

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Images split the truth in fractions.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.