Black Quote by Catherine Drinker Bowen

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Fact is just fiction with different storytellers”

— Abby Slovin

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

— Varley O'Connor

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived,…

— Alison Weir

“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”

— Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to…

— Yann Martel

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

— Virginia Wolff

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf