Stranger Than Fiction Quotes & Sayings

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. — Arthur Conan Doyle

They say 'truth is stranger than fiction,' but I like to say fiction is truth - only stranger. — Chip Hill

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. — Brock Yates

films like The Never-Ending Story (1984), Stranger than Fiction (2006), and The Adjustment Bureau (2011). Have you seen any of these films? Then you understand hermeneutics. In each case, the story revolves around a protagonist engaging his own life as a fictional story being written either in this world or in another, seemingly by someone else. As he reads and interprets the text of his life, however, he discovers that its story or plot changes. He discovers the circle or loop of hermeneutics. He discovers that as he engages his cultural script as text creatively and critically he is rereading and rewriting himself. He is changing the story. — Whitley Strieber

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. — Leo Rosten

Yes, I was scared of the Daleks and the Zarbi and the rest, but I was taking other, stranger, more important lessons away from my Saturday tea time serial. For a start, I became infected by the idea that there are an infinite number of worlds only a foot step away. And another part of the meme was this- some things are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside. And perhaps some people are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside as well. And that was only the start of it. — Neil Gaiman

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes. — Sanjo Jendayi

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

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

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. — Marc Forster

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

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

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. — Michio Kaku

The truth was stranger than the official fiction. — Dean Koontz

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. — Alan Guth

I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction — Marcus Chown

Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction — George Gordon Byron

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact. — Walter Kirn

True story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction. — John Gribbin

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

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

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. — Mark Twain

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. — A.E. Samaan

Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren't any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. I know the idea seems strange, but I also know that it just so happens to be true. — Zach Helm

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

Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories. — Lucian Barnes

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

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

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. — Pseudonymous Bosch

At eighteen the true narrative of life is yet to be
commenced. Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvelous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. Before that time our world is heroic, its inhabitants half-divine or semi-demon; its scenes are dreamscenes; darker woods and stranger hills, brighter skies, more dangerous waters, sweeter flowers, more tempting fruits, wider plains, drearier deserts, sunnier fields than are found in nature, overspread our enchanted globe. What a moon we gaze on before that time! How the trembling of our hearts at her aspect bears
witness to its unutterable beauty! — Charlotte Bronte

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man. — Mike D

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted. — Dustin Hoffman

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,
the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy. — Robert Aris Willmott

The old slogan 'truth is stranger than fiction,' that still corresponded to the surrealist phase of this estheticization of life, is obsolete. There is no more fiction that life could possibly confront, even victoriously-it is reality itself that disappears utterly in the game of reality-radical disenchantment, the cool and cybernetic phase following the hot stage of fantasy. — Jean Baudrillard

The truth is stranger than fiction ... and often more incriminating. — Greg Cox

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

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. — Sydney J. Harris

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. — Frederic Raphael

I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination. — Joseph DiFrancesco

Truth is stranger than fiction... — Mark Twain

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird. — Erik Meyer

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

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

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. — Benicio Del Toro

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

Truth is stranger than fiction, after all. — Sara Shepard

Nature is wilder and stranger than any of the fictions our imagination can create. — Marty Rubin

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

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction. — Mario Van Peebles

Life isn't meant to be believable. It's meant to be magical. Haven't you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction. — Rebecca Serle

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. — Mark Twain

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. — Hiromu Arakawa

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

I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction." Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged. — Dan Grajek

It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger. — Avi

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

I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes. — Emma Thompson

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

In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game? — Joanna Eliot

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

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

'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. — Noah Hawley

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

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 talking about ... that stranger-than variety. — Dick Peterson

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

It's true, reality really is stranger than fiction. — Anonymous

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.
Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led ... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes. — Zach Helm

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. — Carol Alt

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama. — Adam McKay

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology . — Bill Vaughan

Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers. — Jaime Buckley

Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction. — Michael Wall

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career. — Barack Obama

Rand, Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury foresaw much of today's dystopian world: its spiritual and moral emptiness, its culture of consumerism, its flat-souled Last Manishness, its debasement of language, its doublethink, its illiteracy, and its bovine tolerance of authoritarian indignities. But they did not foresee the most serious and catastrophic of today's problems: the eminent destruction of whites, and western culture.

None of them thought to deal with race at all. Why is this? Probably for the simple reason that it never occurred to any of them that whites might take slave morality so far as to actually will their own destruction. As always, the truth is stranger than fiction. — Jef Costello

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. — Ray McKinnon

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

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. — Gertrude Stein

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. — Craig Silvey