A Quote by Carol Alt

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Carol Alt

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Carol Alt
American - Model
Born: December 1, 1960

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Richard Posner

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

Jon Weisman

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

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

Kevin Kwan

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.