A Quote by Jon Weisman
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.
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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.
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.
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.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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 might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
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.
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.
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.
