Top 100 Reality Fiction Quotes

#1. A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

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#2. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

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#3. Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.

Michael Richardson

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#4. The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.

Anne Edwards

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#5. Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

Kate Wilhelm

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#6. Reality, my strange and precious one. Reality is fabric. Fabric is
reality. And your reality here is far easier to live with than where I
was on the other side. So that's why I don't want to go back, and
why you wouldn't like it.

Esme Ellis

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#7. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Bruno Bettelheim

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#8. I am a storyteller, spiraling fantasy and reality into mystical tales. That eerie space between fact and fiction, where only the brightest light can scare the shadows - you will find me there.

Sara Frost

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#9. Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

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#10. Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

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#11. I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

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#12. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

L.E. Horn

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#13. There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Christopher Fry

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#14. There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

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#15. It's perfect. Blurred lines; it's when fact and fiction become indiscernible. Fantasy and reality fade into a color of grey yarn and you become tangled up in it and can't escape into the world of black and white you desperately need as proof of the reality of life itself.

Scott Hildreth

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#16. Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.

Syed Arshad

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#17. We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

T.L. Rese

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#18. Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Aljean Harmetz

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#19. Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.

Ben Mezrich

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#20. Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.

Jonathan Kellerman

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#21. Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Stewart Stafford

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#22. For he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.

Stefan Grabinski

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#23. The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.

Tom M. Wiseman

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#24. I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don't actually ever lie.

Lucia Berlin

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#25. The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.

Laren Grey Umphlett

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#26. Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#27. I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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#28. Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Jorge Luis Borges

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#29. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

Brett Armstrong

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#30. Open up your Mind Rockin' Minds to the Cold Hard Reality that is my Songs & Dreams.

Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The

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#31. Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain how imagination can transform not only events and people, but the artist as well, into quite different "realities".

Joan Lindsay

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#32. Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be - it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration.

Jasper Fforde

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#33. Peepo Choo is avant-garde! ... It is both comedy and drama! It is both the wildest fiction and the most sobering reality! It's about love and hate! About passion! About being human! It's about life!!!

Felipe Smith

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#34. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

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#35. Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

Heather Dubrow

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#36. A microbe is more deadly than a minotaur

Marty Rubin

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#37. In a fairy tale, the story can't be altered. The prince and princess will never have a fight. You'll never hear the queen raise her voice. No on ever gets sick; no one ever gets hurt. Maybe love is only safe in places where it can't change.

Jodi Picoult

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#38. Blurring reality and fiction: Fiction written to provoke and to entertain

Ronald S. Barak

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#39. In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.

Henry Martin

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#40. Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

Amy Neftzger

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#41. Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Ralph Ellison

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#42. fiction:
the ocean
i dive
headfirst
into
when i
can
no longer
breathe
in
reality.

- a mermaid escapist II.

Amanda Lovelace

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#43. With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

Martin Parr

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#44. Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone

Arthur C. Clarke

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#45. One of benefit of fiction: it puts your mind off your reality when your reality is off-putting.

Neil Smith

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#46. Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Yann Martel

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#47. Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

Flannery O'Connor

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#48. 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.

Christopher Rice

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#49. The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

Geoff Mulgan

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#50. People believe in everything except the reality.

Min Kim

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#51. Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.

Chad Harbach

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#52. I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

Syd Mead

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#53. The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#54. For one never makes a film out of nothing. To shoot a film is always to shoot something, be it fiction or reality, and the more shaky the reality, the more solid the fiction must be.

Eric Rohmer

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#55. Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

Karen Russell

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#56. I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

Sebastian Thrun

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#57. If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

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#58. Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?

Ernest Cline

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#59. Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.

Steven Rigolosi

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#60. Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.

Johnny Rich

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#61. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.

Mira Grant

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#62. Myth and Reality go hand in hand!

Abhishek Leela Pandey

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#63. All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

Garrison Keillor

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#64. The interrogation has succeeded; I am now an enemy of the state. ... I have become a violent act of reality inflicted upon the fiction of which we are both citizens. I want him to know that I understand this, that every thump of his truncheon hardens my resolve, that he has my permission.

Anthony Marra

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#65. But a fix, some magic cure to his "poor" status, was really only a dream; reality usually took precedence over everything else, especially dreams.

M.L. Sanford

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#66. I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do ...

John Geddes

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#67. Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

Adam Langer

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#68. Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

Anne Enright

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#69. Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats. The reality waled at my side.

Diana Gabaldon

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#70. While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while the book was fiction, the situations were based on historical realities - some of which were pretty hard to believe.

Julie Klassen

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#71. 'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

Ellen Stofan

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#72. There is more truth in fiction than reality

L.M.Rozycki

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#73. Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.

Lauren Lola

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#74. We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

Lillie Devereux Blake

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#75. Speculative fiction includes all stories that take place in a setting contrary to known reality.

Orson Scott Card

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#76. Reality is separating fact from fiction.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

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#77. Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this stark reality called 'life' as a blessing, whereas some foolishly waste it by following fiction and fictitious characters.

Henrietta Newton Martin

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#78. As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man
the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

Nicholas Sparks

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#79. The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Bret Easton Ellis

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#80. Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

David Walliams

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#81. I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it's the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.

Neill Blomkamp

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#82. Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.

Ales Kot

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#83. As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than sane, or what is imagination versus undiscovered truth, but ultimately, it is my job to make you as unsure as I am.

Kathryn Mattingly

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#84. Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.

Justin Alcala

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#85. Let fiction inspire reality for good

M.H. Rahman

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#86. I am glad you are happy
but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#87. I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Sara Sheridan

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#88. It's true, reality really is stranger than fiction.

Anonymous

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#89. Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Slavoj Zizek

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#90. If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Jean-Luc Godard

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#91. The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

Dana Schutz

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#92. Give me FICTION,
REALITY is OVERRATED!

Lily Velden

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#93. What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#94. Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!

Victoria Addino

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#95. Because sometimes, fantasy is the only way to survive reality. Awol

Karen Amanda Hooper

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#96. Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

Sara Sheridan

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#97. Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice.

Jacob Wild

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#98. I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.

Moryah DeMott

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#99. The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion.

Marty Rubin

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#100. You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

David Twohy

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