Teresa Medeiros Quotes

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

All stories are true.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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

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.

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

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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

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

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

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.

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

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

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

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.