“If it's fiction, then it better be true.”

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

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

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”

“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.”

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”

“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.”

“This is an exercise in fictional science, or science fiction, if you like that better. Not for amusement: science fiction in the service of science. Or just science, if you agree that fiction is a part of it, always was, and always will be as long as our brains are only miniscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.”

“First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction”