Travis Fimmel Quotes

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

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

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

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.

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

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

The best stories come out of the truth.

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

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

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

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

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.

Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

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

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.