A Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Canadian - Author
December 17, 1796 - August 27, 1865

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Richard Posner

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

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Carol Alt

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Mark Twain

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

Jon Weisman

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

Mark Twain

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

Ricky Gervais

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 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

I loved the fact that Mitch Coleborn wasn't on my radar for 'Stranger than Fiction' until he sent 10 waves of himself to us. Then he went from unknown to having a great section in the movie.