Simone Weil Quotes

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

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

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

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

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

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

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.

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

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.

Just because it's in a movie doesn't mean it's real.

What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?

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

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

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

All stories are true.

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

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.