“Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.”— Erik Meyer Related Quotes “A woman’s got one life: She’s got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it’ll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.”— Robin Schone “History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.”— A.E. Samaan “An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings, as Singer noted, have contradictions.”— Joseph Telushkin