Top 1200 Stranger Than Fiction Quotes & Sayings

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

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.

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

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

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

When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.

Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

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

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

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.

It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

Youth is stranger than fiction.

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

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

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.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

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 maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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.

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

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

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

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

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

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

On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

'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.

On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

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.

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

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.

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.

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.

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 times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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.