David Mitchell Quotes

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

That which is cannot be true.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

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

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

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

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.