Jodi Picoult Quotes

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

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

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

All stories are true.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

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

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

History is a fiction which actually happened; fiction is history which could have happened.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.