Fiction Quotes

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

Truth, Stranger, Stick

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

Truth, Sense, Wonder

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

Work, Woman, Her

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

Truth, Why, After

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

Truth, Stick, Obliged

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Bad, Means

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

Painful, Duty, Writes

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth, Reality, Obscures

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn

Truth, Study, Reason

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix

Science, Rest, Key

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Play, Child

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

Science, Today, May

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

Music, Feelings, Film

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil

Life, Real, Three

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
Steven Wright

Science, Die, Leaving

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?
Mitt Romney

Time, Good, Character

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Ray Bradbury

Change, Art, Science

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
Mark Zuckerberg

Time, Computers, Real

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf

Money, Woman, Her

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Another, Seen

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen Hawking

Time, Travel, Science

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller

Life, Liar, Though

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

Truth, Lie, Inside

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
Richard Dawkins

Poetry, Reality, Culture

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature, Necessity, Luxury

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov

Science, May, Problems

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth, Strange, Stranger

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

Truth, Hard, Sometimes

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Malcolm Forbes

Old, Read, Anyone

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