The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.
– SA Tawks
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- Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth. – Tim OBrien
- It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird. – Erik Meyer
- With regards to getting laid and getting AIDS: Being interesting can be an interesting guy’s downfall. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Anyway, I don’t trust those people who poke around sad people’s minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It’s not interesting. – Ottessa Moshfegh
- If you don’t learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you’ll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. – Hillel F Damron
- You don’t find a masked man wielding a gun interesting? Tell me…what do you find interesting then-Matt Carter – Natasha Larry
- We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves. – Jack Gardner
- The truth is never dressed for the occasion. – Steve Maraboli
- Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with – to live a more interesting reality than one’s daily life. – Steven Rigolosi
- Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting? – LHandLG
- Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn’t exist. – George Orwell
- Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. – James E Faust
- God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. – Patty Houser
- If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn’t tell the truth; it tales the truth. – Criss Jami
- 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
- Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. – Rudyard Kipling
- Christian Fiction is like a parable. The story is made up, but the truth is brought to life. Enjoy the story, but savor the truth. – Mary Ann Brantley
- The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important. – SA Tawks
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven. – Robert M Roberts
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’ fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still. – Russell Hoban
- Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. – John Cheever
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. – Brian A McBride
- If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams
- Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. – Alan Moore