Top 100 Truth Fiction Quotes
#1. I've had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon line of truth, fiction, and a not-always-pleasing mix of the two.
Chila Woychik
#2. Jack picked a piece of mint from his glass and chewed on it for a second. "I'm curious," he said,
"is telling someone to relax ever helpful? It's like saying 'breathe' to someone who is
hyperventilating or 'swallow' to a person who's choking. It's a completely useless admonition.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#3. She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
Henry James
#4. Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Mira Nair
#5. Truth has the structure of a fiction.
Lacan
#6. The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
Wallace Stevens
#7. I find it more and more difficult to write fiction, when the truth has become so unbelievable. --DP Vent
D.P. Vent
#8. It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.
Patrick Rothfuss
#9. The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.
S.A. Tawks
#10. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
Neil Gaiman
#11. In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction.
Laila Lalami
#12. I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
John McGahern
#13. Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
Tim O'Brien
#14. She was lucky if he stood behind her. Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it - when he walked out of her life.
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Lenore Wolfe
#15. With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right.
Debra Dean
#16. From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided us to think in a new way, a womanly order. Now, in fiction, with the aid of her characters, she will save the earth and all the sacred things that dwell therein.
E. M. Broner
#17. Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Mark Twain
#18. Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.
Brittany Cavallaro
#19. Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
John Green
#20. Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.
Barbara Delinsky
#21. The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
Dean Koontz
#22. Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.
David Foster Wallace
#24. 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
#25. I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
Julian Schnabel
#26. That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
Tim O'Brien
#27. Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
David Mitchell
#28. Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.
Tanna Marie Angers
#29. Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham Cowley
#30. You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.
Debbi Mack
#31. Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
Nadine Gordimer
#32. Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you
if you don't mind my saying so?
Luigi Pirandello
#33. The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.
Stephen Graham Jones
#34. The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
Shaun Tan
#35. I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.
Alistair Cross
#36. Why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true
Kinky Friedman
#37. She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.
Hillary Jordan
#38. I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.
Cornell Woolrich
#39. Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
Paul Harding
#42. Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.
Salman Rushdie
#43. Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that's the case, we should get busy returning them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#44. A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
#45. What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of a truth less richly represented by the original facts?
Edward St. Aubyn
#46. The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain him and tended to his wounds. The truth had hated him and loved him. The truth had opened his eyes to his own faults.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#47. Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.
Eudora Welty
#48. Moral philosophy is very largely a branch of fiction. Despite this, a philosopher has yet to write a great novel. The fact should not be surprising. In philosophy the truth about human life is of no interest
John N. Gray
#49. To annoy or piss off are light offences. I'd say if you abuse the goodness of a novelist or a writer, the truth is, he or she can kill you multiple times or cannibalise you in many antagonist characters.
Angelica Hopes
#50. I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
Elia Suleiman
#51. Even fiction - perhaps especially fiction - has more truth in it than the author knows.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#52. Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Jeremy Northam
#53. People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one.
Louise Penny
#55. Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.
N.J. Paige
#56. The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.
Laura Kreitzer
#57. To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#58. Memoirs lie, but fiction tells the truth.
Philip Roth
#59. what people write reflects what they believe - fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at you for expressing in real life.
Michael Marshall
#60. The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.
Kathleen McGowan
#61. I fear that so often we Christians give the idea that the truth is fiction by the way we live and by the lack of dedication to the teachings of our Lord.
Billy Graham
#62. Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
Muriel Spark
#63. Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Alan Moore
#64. The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
Richard Russo
#65. In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?
Joanna Eliot
#66. Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.
Rhonda Britten
#67. 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
#69. 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
#71. Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.
Amy Neftzger
#72. Just because some dreams never see light that doesn't make us nonbelievers, they are wings to our sky and fiction makes us dream. I know the truth is fatal, especially for the stubborn's but trust me the illusion is worse.
Parul Wadhwa
#73. 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
#74. I could've gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered.
My brother died because someone was jealous.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#76. But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.
Leslie Cockburn
#77. As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.
Richard Peck
#78. A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
Tim O'Brien
#79. Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#80. With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook - that prissy little virtue, Temperance - for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.
Geoffrey Wood
#81. Our pasts haunt us all.
I regaled my beautiful audience of one with the tale of my life, not so much for entertainment, but for bold, barefaced, honest truth.
Ross Turner
#82. The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.
David Ignatius
#83. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
J.I. Packer
#84. Thus set up, pen in hand, for the sake of greater truth, I would turn Portugal into a fiction. That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? What need did I have to go to Portugal? The
Yann Martel
#85. In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
Wallace Stegner
#86. I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.
Augusto De Luca
#87. The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#88. The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#89. 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
#90. Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain
#91. Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood - Addison Goodheart pg. 84
Dean Koontz
#92. [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive Barker
#93. You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed!
John T. Montgomery
#95. Stories are just lies made to look like truth.
Johnny Rich
#96. Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.
Karen Azinger
#97. I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
Eleanor Antin
#98. Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done. Do you like it?
Mark Twain
#99. The Taellywood treasure beckoned us. All of us ached for God's wisdom. We had so many questions. We wanted to know why things happened the way they did. We needed to know. We desired the truth and we yearned for answers to many of life's questions.
Pat Patrick
#100. There is at least one truth in every myth.
Suzy Kassem
