Marilynne Robinson Quotes

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

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

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

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

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

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

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.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.