A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction.

— Joanna Kulig

Don't spread fiction when you have no fact, it just creates friction and shows no tact.

— Desmond Fouche

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press…

— Joe Wilson

“Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.”

— Alan Moore

“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as…

— Virginia Woolf

“Resist demonstrating that your worldliness was more fiction than fact,” he whispered. “You, Lady Agatha, in the common parlance with which you are so…

— Connie Brockway

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”

— T. Scott McLeod

“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“And the stories she'd been told, were they confessions of uncommitted crimes, accounts of the worst imaginable, imagined to keep fiction from becoming fact?…

— Clive Barker

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the…

— Helen McCloy

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

— Diana Penty

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do…

— Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached…

— Chris Abani

“It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”

— Libba Bray