A Quote by Ray McKinnon
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.
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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.
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 stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.
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.
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!
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.
I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be in prose versus the tone one might use to write biography; I would never do a biographical story using the deliberately synthetic way of cartooning I use to write fiction. I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I "draw," which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world.
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.
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