Fiction Quotes

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Francis Bacon

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

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 gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux