James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

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

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

True stories are way more interesting.

As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

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

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Nothing in this book is true.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.