Mark Twain Quotes

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

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

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

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

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

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.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

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

Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

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

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

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

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

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

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.