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Daniel Wallace is an American author, best known for his 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, the basis for the Tim Burton film Big Fish and the Broadway musical of the same name. His other books include Ray in Reverse and The Watermelon King. His stories have also been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

✵ 1959
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Famous Daniel Wallace Quotes

“A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”

Daniel Wallace

Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam

“When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.”

Daniel Wallace book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Variant: Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.
Source: Big Fish

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

Daniel Wallace

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

Daniel Wallace

Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam

“This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.”

Daniel Wallace book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Source: Big Fish

“It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.”

Daniel Wallace

“You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it.”

Daniel Wallace book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Source: Big Fish

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