Concerned Quote by Charles de Lint

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

— John McGahern

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record,

— Doris Lessing

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges…

— Muriel Spark

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

— Richard Posner

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

— Celeste Ng

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

— Arundhati Roy

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

— Dorothy Allison

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of the newspaper.

— Scott Pruitt

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat