A Quote by Kevin Kwan

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

Kevin Kwan

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Kevin Kwan
Singaporean - Novelist

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

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

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.

Pseudonymous Bosch

Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth at every moment. You do your best to quote people accurately and get everything right. Writing a novel is a break from that: freedom. When you're writing a novel, you are in charge; you can beef things up.

Nicholson Baker

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

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mark Twain

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Frederic Raphael

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Leo Rosten

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

Ray McKinnon

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.

Sydney J. Harris

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