Lionel Shriver Quotes

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

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

If nonsense were black, Sacramento would need gas lamps at noonday. So scurvy a crew I do not remember to have been discovered in vermiculose conspiracy outside the carcass of a dead horse.

… the most superlatively ridiculous thing

This is the most unheard of thing that I have ever heard of

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

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

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

The whole trial seemed surreal.

I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.

The idea of saying 'the handsome Pete Holmes' is preposterous.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all