“Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction”
“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.”
“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
“Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.”
“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”