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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

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction. — Laurel Nakadate

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact. — Raymond Chandler

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not. — Aldous Huxley

Some day ... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact. — James Jones

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

There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths. — Mark Piper

All fiction is better with explosions' said Jared. 'Basic fact of life. — Sarah Rees Brennan

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

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact. — Muriel Spark

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. — Robin Williams

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

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

He tortured, not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction. — Martin Amis

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

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it. — Belinda G. Buchanan

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity. — Halldor Laxness

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction. — Matt Haig

Every fiction has its base in fact. — Gayle Forman

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased - facts the new trues. — Geoffrey Wood

I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not. — Lenny Abrahamson

There is no fact or fiction, reality or illusion, there is only the trick of perception. — Debasish Mridha

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. — Lois Lowry

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously. — Virginia Woolf

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it. — Leanne Pooley

I stoped reading science fiction once I saw that the UFO was real. It became science fact that just hasn't been proven yet. — Mike Bird

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such — Georges Bataille

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run. — Robert A. Heinlein

There is no fact that is not at least part fiction. — Marty Rubin

Fact and fiction are different truths. — Patricia MacLachlan

Faction" is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction. — Martin Herman

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. — Umberto Eco

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

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

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

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people. — Varley O'Connor

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction. — Jeanette Winterson

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

The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author. — Donald Maass

The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact. — Oscar Wilde

The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true. — Hilary Mantel

Don't think I won't know if you're lying, I know how many bases you've been on, you red headed puritan. I will be able to tell fact from fiction. — Quinn Loftis

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact. — Alison Croggon

I prefer fact to fiction. — Richard Attenborough

Every fiction has its base in fact, he tells her. — Gayle Forman