In history there's what's written down and there's what…

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

— Javier Zanetti

The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.

— Marcus Borg

I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I…

— Sasa Stanisic

I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Campaign playing Madonna's son, which was…

— Max Schneider

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.

— John Prine

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

— Mario Puzo

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

— Anonymous

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

— Antony Beevor

“That's actually happened?' Ruth asked. 'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said.”

— John Irving

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

— Mark Twain

“Sometimes there are still days when I wake up and wonder if this has actually happened, or if it’s been one long dream.”

— Michelle Madow

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback,…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think we all know what actually happened. It was a good old boy network, and there was no such thing as a good…

— Wally Funk

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro