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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
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
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
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
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
So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.
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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
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
— Voltaire
Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased - facts the new trues.
— Geoffrey Wood
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