Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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.

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

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

Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

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

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

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

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Fiction lags after truth.

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.

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

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

As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of make-believe. If you pretend that it's true, and use your own name, you are misleading people. Fiction is looser and wilder and sometimes in the end more self-revealing, anyway.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

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

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

All stories are true.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.