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The best fiction is true. — Kinky Friedman
It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games yo — Pauline Clarke, The Return of the Twelves
The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain h — Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. — Frederic Raphael
You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do... — Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable. — John H. Alexander
It's not an easy thing to tell a true story. — Allen Morris Jones
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King
I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn — Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose
Fact and fiction are different truths. — Patricia MacLachlan, The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt
There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant — Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages woul — Matthew Pearl, The Last Dickens
Truths are dangerous," he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, — Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to r — Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction
Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm t — Dick Peterson
I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument a — Mary Rose O'Reilley, The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells anyway — Kevin Sampsell editor "Shanghaied" by Gigi Little, Portland Noir
How come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why can’t they mak — Richelle Mead, Succubus Heat
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God. — Johnny Hart
In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down. — Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves