My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

To tell the truth, then, is to risk
being remembered by its fiction.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable.
(At times truth may not seem probable)

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.