Top 66 Stranger Than Fiction Quotes
#1. It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.
Avi
#2. I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.
Benicio Del Toro
#3. I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
Julian Schnabel
#4. When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .
Bill Vaughan
#6. The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#7. Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.
Leonard Susskind
#8. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.
Jon Weisman
#9. Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Mark Twain
#10. Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.
Ricky Gervais
#11. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.
Brock Yates
#13. Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.
Mira Nair
#14. Life isn't meant to be believable. It's meant to be magical. Haven't you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction.
Rebecca Serle
#15. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
Carol Alt
#16. I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction." Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.
Dan Grajek
#17. Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.
Jaime Buckley
#18. The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney J. Harris
#19. 'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.
Noah Hawley
#20. Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Brad Holland
#21. Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction
George Gordon Byron
#22. Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
Mike D
#23. Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
Ray McKinnon
#24. The truth is stranger than fiction ... and often more incriminating.
Greg Cox
#25. Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.
Sara Shepard
#26. Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
G.K. Chesterton
#27. Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction.
Michael Wall
#28. History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.
A.E. Samaan
#29. I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.
Joseph DiFrancesco
#30. The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
Gertrude Stein
#31. Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
David Benioff
#32. Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
Heather Dubrow
#34. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
William Randolph
#35. Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Leo Rosten
#36. They say 'truth is stranger than fiction,' but I like to say fiction is truth - only stranger.
Chip Hill
#37. Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
Neil Gaiman
#38. Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.
Erik Meyer
#39. Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.
Lucian Barnes
#40. Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
H.L. Mencken
#42. It's true, reality really is stranger than fiction.
Anonymous
#43. On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.
Marc Forster
#44. Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
Richard Posner
#45. Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.
Sanjo Jendayi
#46. Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
John Hodgman
#47. The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
Mark Twain
#48. You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.
Craig Silvey
#49. I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
Beau Willimon
#50. Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain
#51. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
#52. Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Mark Twain
#53. In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?
Joanna Eliot
#54. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
#55. Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#56. Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.
Michio Kaku
#57. Nature is wilder and stranger than any of the fictions our imagination can create.
Marty Rubin
#58. Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
Stephen Hawking
#59. The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
Dean Koontz
#60. When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.
Alan Guth
#61. I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.
Barack Obama
#62. I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
Emma Thompson
#63. True story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.
John Gribbin
#64. This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.
Dustin Hoffman
#65. I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction
Marcus Chown
#66. Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.
Dick Peterson
