Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction Quotes

#1. In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

Mario Van Peebles

#2. Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction.

Michael Wall

#3. Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.

Sara Shepard

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

Greg Cox

#5. 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

#6. '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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Avi

#10. Life isn't meant to be believable. It's meant to be magical. Haven't you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction.

Rebecca Serle

#11. 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

#12. Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

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

Jon Weisman

#14. Truth is stranger than fiction...

Mark Twain

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

Julian Schnabel

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

Heather Dubrow

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

Leo Rosten

#18. They say 'truth is stranger than fiction,' but I like to say fiction is truth - only stranger.

Chip Hill

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

Joanna Eliot

#21. Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Mark Twain

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.

Joseph DiFrancesco

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

#28. Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction

George Gordon Byron

#29. Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Mira Nair

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

John Hodgman

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

Mark Twain

#33. 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

#34. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

#35. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Frederic Raphael

#36. Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.

Erik Meyer

#37. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

William Randolph

#38. 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