A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.