William Saroyan Quotes

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

There are many levels of truth.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Life's all about perceptions.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.