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Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity. — Dan Brown

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual. — P. J. O'Rourke

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much. — Marcus Brigstocke

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times. — Roy Blount Jr.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. — John Shelby Spong

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses. — James Morcan

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
— Carlos Fuentes

Truth is the first casualty of war. — Sophie Masson

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit. — Mordecai Richler

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived. — Ingeborg Bachmann

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement. — Robert Genn

Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it. — Michael Jackson

Factual accounts of premeditated violence in the global fashion industry. — William Gibson

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached. — Antonin Scalia

To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge. — Felix Alba-Juez

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could. — Cheryl Strayed

One cannot reach the real point of factual knowledge without being helped by the right person who is already established in that knowledge. There — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record, — Doris Lessing

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull. — Julia Sawalha

Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper — Tony Alleyne

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases. — Max Weber

Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action. — Tameichi Hara

...he knows stories don't need to be factual to be vital. — Lauren Groff

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. — Jan Morris

The solution is commitment to whatever is in front of you;
Because
It's not always what you wanna do but the options in front of you — Bandile Matsenjwa

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

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg

The fanciful is as much a part of our reality as the factual. — Marty Rubin

References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual — Dan Brown

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk. — Charles R. Cross

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph. — Dorothea Lange

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

Stories are factual ... If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change ... In America it is the man who matters not the story. — Adam Johnson

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams

Fiction is true. It doesn't have to factual to be true. — Ben Monopoli

The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign. — George W. Bush

Everything I tell you is true, but this is factual. — Mort Sahl

That claim was not intended to be a factual statement. — Jon Kyl

While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. — Jonathan Dimbleby

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. — Jane Goodall

Factual truth is always related to other people [ ... ]. It is political by nature. — Hannah Arendt

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. — Nadine Gordimer

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep. — Henry Gleitman

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible. — Joshua Micah Marshall

Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it. — Vj Nadar

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux

Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. — Timothy Snyder

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. — Boris Pasternak

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. — Johnny Ball

I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays. — Oliver Sacks

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth. — Shane Carruth

I didn't want to write this
even to think of you
afraid the thought would curl
would tangle & make you
common & factual as light. — Jake Adam York

The spirit of rebellion can exist only in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The — Albert Camus

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy. — Jim C. Hines

I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had — Tony Abbott

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — Maurice Sendak

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear. — Sharon Kay Penman