A Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
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.
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.
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.
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