Quotes About Truth

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.