When he had landed on the roof of his building he sat for a time, weaving together in his mind a story thick with verisimilitude.
Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
On 30 October 1967 he wrote to Joy Hill at George Allen & Unwin, concerning a reader's query he had received about points in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings : 'Personally I have ceased to bother about these minor "discrepancies", since if the genealogies and calendars etc. lack verisimilitude it is in their general excessive accuracy: as compared with real annals or genealogies!
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
His account of his supposed emotions, from the discovery of the loss of the revolver onwards, was a triumph of verisimilitude.
Josephine Tey
The Man in the Queue
Plots in fiction should be wedded to the understanding of the reader, and be constructed in such a way that, reconciling impossibilities, smoothing over difficulties, keeping the mind on the alert, they may surprise, interest, divert, and entertain, so that wonder and delight joined may keep pace one with the other; all which he will fail to effect who shuns verisimilitude and truth to nature, wherein lies the perfection of writing.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote