Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Some stories are true that never happened.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

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.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.