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title: "22 Fiction Fact Quotes by 20 authors"
description: "Browse 22 Fiction Fact quotes by 20 authors. Discover the best Fiction Fact sayings and thoughts."
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> [Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/our-first-ideas-of-life-are-generally-taken-from-fiction-rather-than/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/nonfiction-is-a-form-of-literature-that-lies-halfway-between-fiction/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-penty/i-prefer-non-fiction-to-fiction-in-fact-i-don-t-read-fiction-at-all-i/)

[Diana Penty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-penty/)

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> [A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/a-play-is-fiction-and-fiction-is-fact-distilled-into-truth/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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> [“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-scott-mcleod/there-is-some-fiction-in-all-fact-and-some-fact-in-all-fiction/)

[T. Scott McLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-scott-mcleod/)

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> [“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pushkar-ganesh-vaidya/the-line-between-fiction-and-fact-is-at-times-factual-and-at-times/)

[Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pushkar-ganesh-vaidya/)

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> [“Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/fiction-and-fact-only-madmen-and-magistrates-cannot-discriminate/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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> [Don't spread fiction when you have no fact, it just creates friction and shows no tact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-fouche/don-t-spread-fiction-when-you-have-no-fact-it-just-creates-friction/)

[Desmond Fouche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-fouche/)

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> [To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-handey/to-me-truth-is-not-some-vague-foggy-notion-truth-is-real-and-at-the/)

[Jack Handey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-handey/)

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> [“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/every-healthy-person-at-some-period-must-feed-on-fiction-as-well-as/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [“It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/libba-bray/it-is-rather-alarming-how-quickly-people-will-turn-someone-else-s/)

[Libba Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/libba-bray/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd7/libba-bray-259_alarming_it-is-rather-alarming-how-quickly-people_1964942.png)

> [Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-mccloy/civilization-is-a-fiction-which-becomes-a-fact-only-as-long-as/)

[Helen McCloy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-mccloy/)

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> [“Resist demonstrating that your worldliness was more fiction than fact,” he whispered. “You, Lady Agatha, in the common parlance with which you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/connie-brockway/resist-demonstrating-that-your-worldliness-was-more-fiction-than-fact/)

[Connie Brockway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/connie-brockway/)

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> [Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-wilson/giving-the-same-value-to-fiction-as-to-fact-in-the-interest-of-so/)

[Joe Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-wilson/)

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> [The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/libba-bray/the-mere-suggestion-of-fame-and-fortune-casts-a-glamour-all-its-own/)

[Libba Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/libba-bray/)

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> [“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/reading-yourself-as-a-fiction-as-well-as-a-fact-is-the-only-way-to/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

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> [Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camilla-gibb/once-you-step-inside-history-has-to-be-rewritten-to-include-you-a/)

[Camilla Gibb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camilla-gibb/)

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> [Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/reading-things-that-are-relevant-to-the-facts-of-your-life-is-of-2/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

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> [“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/if-woman-had-no-existence-save-in-the-fiction-written-by-men-one-2/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-abani/fiction-is-more-dangerous-than-nonfiction-because-it-can-seduce/)

[Chris Abani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-abani/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/chris-abani-7393_book_fiction-is-more-dangerous-than-nonfictio_276401.png)

> [There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-d-aguiar/there-s-an-imperative-to-make-sure-you-distinguish-fiction-from-the/)

[Fred D'Aguiar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-d-aguiar/)

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> [“And the stories she'd been told, were they confessions of uncommitted crimes, accounts of the worst imaginable, imagined to keep fiction from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-barker/and-the-stories-she-d-been-told-were-they-confessions-of-uncommitted/)

[Clive Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-barker/)

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