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

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
Steven Wright

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.
Jim Rohn

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Jack Nicholson

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Marquis de Sade