A Quote by Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

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

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

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

Mario Van Peebles

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

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

Jon Weisman

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

Mark Twain

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Leo Rosten

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Frederic Raphael

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .

Bill Vaughan

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.