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In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of human beings — Daisaku Ikeda

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had. — John Dufresne

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction - so we are told. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

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

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

With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth. — S.A. Tawks

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts. — John Green

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

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. — John McGahern

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

The novelist uses facts to create a fiction about life. The pornographer uses sexual reality to create sexual illusion. — Marty Rubin

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E.L. Doctorow

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. — Saul David

Although the facts are technically fiction. But they're only called fiction by the people who don't know the facts. — Kathy McCullough

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't ruin a good story with the facts. — Jerry Guarino

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact. — Michael Bierut

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

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction. — Ovid

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact. — Isaac Asimov

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

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination. — Parker J. Palmer

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

The truth is crazier than lies because lies are required to stick to possibilities - the truth isn't. — Caroline George

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

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings. — Helen Cam

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease. — Rabindranath Tagore

Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts? — Alan Dapre

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. — Malcolm Forbes

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

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction. — Oakley Hall

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.
Egwene al'Vere — Brandon Sanderson

The truer the facts the better the fiction. — Virginia Woolf

Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery. — Joseph Campbell

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. — Thomas A. Edison

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J.B. Priestley

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

Reality can really tax your imagination. — Brooke Gladstone

You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts — Forrest Carr

Who needed facts when fiction was so much more titillating? — Dee Tenorio

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. — Voltaire

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter. — Maya Deren

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

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

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. — V.S. Naipaul

Facts are all that they can offer us, and facts are a very inferior form of fiction. — Virginia Woolf

If you can't get your head around facts then stick with all the possibilities fiction gives. — Stephen Richards

Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow — Stewart Stafford

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction. — Jerome K. Jerome

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. — Ray Bradbury

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster ... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. — Diane Arbus