The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction Quotes

#1. The truth is stranger than fiction ... and often more incriminating.

Greg Cox

#2. I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Julian Schnabel

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

G.K. Chesterton

#4. 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

#5. '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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.

Avi

#9. 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

#10. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

Jon Weisman

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

John Hodgman

#16. The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Mark Twain

#17. 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

#18. In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?

Joanna Eliot

#19. Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.

Lucian Barnes

#20. Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Leo Rosten

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

Heather Dubrow

#22. 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