Tony Wilson Quotes

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

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

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

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

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

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Some stories are true that never happened.

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

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

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

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

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.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Stories are a different kind of true.

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.

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

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.