The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
LEO ROSTEN It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.
AHMED MOSTAFA It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe a...
HEATHER O'NEILL Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and phil...
JOHN CHEEVER The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Reagan’s easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasi...
MICHAEL ROGIN There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tel...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS There may always be another reality to make fiction of the one we live in.
AARON FRANKS Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new ama...
TOM SHALES I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.
MORYAH DEMOTT Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
ROBIN HOBB Where does fiction end and reality begin?
DEAN KOONTZ In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
DAMON LINDELOF Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.
JUSTIN ALCALA All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with n...
NANCY KRESS Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST Good fiction creates its own reality.
NORA ROBERTS Reality is being reflected by fiction
ERIK VAN ZANEN 'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.
ELLEN STOFAN The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
DANIEL WOODRELL Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgeme...
MARC CARROGGIO The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!
ELI OF KITTIM As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about...
CHARLES DE LINT The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.
ALLAN SHERMAN A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork ...
JULIA GLASS Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable ...
DINAW MENGESTU The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
THOMAS CARLYLE The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
WILLIAM GIBSON As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is a...
CHARLES DE LINT Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this ...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
ALJEAN HARMETZ Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not nee...
J. G. BALLARD Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need ...
J. G. BALLARD A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction
is better than th...
EUGENE CHAPUS We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
RUSSELL HOBAN Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
SAUL STEINBERG Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.
ALAN MOORE The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwa...
AARON ALLSTON Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe...
NEIL GAIMAN We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the ideali...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each o...
BRITTANY CAVALLARO I don't write romance novels, any more than Tom Clancy writes legal thrillers. Yes, I write about lo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, part...
JAMES GUNN Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprun...
J. G. BALLARD Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
RALPH ELLISON 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it cre...
LANCE REDDICK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.
JESSAMYN WEST This fiction of reality is becoming merely an essence of metaphysical imagination.
PAUL JAMES SPRY My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
LAUREN WILLIG I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
HILL HARPER I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of co...
NNEDI OKORAFOR Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
ASTRO TELLER Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
YOUNG-HA KIM The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
TODD STRASSER The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the hero...
DARREN SHAN Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more t...
CLARK ZLOTCHEW The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With...
DANA SCHUTZ Science fiction has no ceiling.
WILLIAM DONELSON I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines o...
GIL GERARD as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK I am aware that when we see something, we are getting only a measure of information, a sense, an ink...
DON DELILLO Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.
RICHARD DAWKINS We thought it best to go with science fiction because you can tweak reality and the audience can sus...
CHRIS ROLAND Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to u...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my fir...
IRVIN D. YALOM Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aes...
STEVEN SODERBERGH To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
MAL PEET Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its...
MICHAEL RICHARDSON I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly...
CHINA MIEVILLE Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiogr...
ARTHUR SMITH There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an...
JOHN SCALZI Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
JOYCE RACHELLE The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to soc...
GEOFF MULGAN When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might ...
ISAAC BABEL Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which m...
YANN MARTEL Every fiction has its base in fact.
GAYLE FORMAN Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
WALLACE STEVENS I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
GALE ANNE HURD A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not giv...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.
TAPAN GHOSH I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
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