Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional” — Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya Copy Share Image
“Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Don't spread fiction when you have no fact, it just creates friction and shows no tact. — Desmond Fouche Copy Share Image
To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“Resist demonstrating that your worldliness was more fiction than fact,” he whispered. “You, Lady Agatha, in the common parlance with which you… — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and… — Joe Wilson Copy Share Image
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“And the stories she'd been told, were they confessions of uncommitted crimes, accounts of the worst imaginable, imagined to keep fiction from… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
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