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There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work. — James Frey

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision. — Louise Bogan

This a work of f(r)iction, where fact and fiction rub up against each other, and nobody wants to know it regardless. — Bob N. Boguslavski

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer. — Andrew Vachss

There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction. — T. Scott McLeod

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. — Leslie Stephen

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power ... — Ethan Canin

In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction. — T.B. Christensen

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie. — Krisi Keley

The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional — Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

But as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction. — Clive Barker

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. — Eleanor Antin

A True Born Englishman's a contradiction!
In speech and irony, in fact a fiction — Daniel Defoe

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. — Chris Chocola

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact. — Thomas Mallon

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. — Antony Beevor

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. — Arthur Smith

The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Personal experience is the foundation of anything I write. What I leave up to the audience to decide is where fact ends and fiction begins. — Mark Baranowski

A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems. — Antony Beevor

I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact ... mmm I like! — Harold Alvin

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times. — Joely Richardson

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy. — John Pipkin

As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. — Aleksandar Hemon

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. — Edward Albee

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget. — Daniel Suarez

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. — Charles De Lint

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team. — Jack Johnson

Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them. — Alan Moore

Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose. — Thomas Wolfe

Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact. — F Scott Fitzgerald

All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable. — Chloe Thurlow

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction ... transcends the historical thriller. — Jeffery Deaver

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. — Rene Auberjonois

It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image. — Ruth Harris

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. — Jeanette Winterson

Fact and fiction are different truths. — Patricia MacLachlan

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy. — Jim Crace