Facts Quote by Frederick Busch

“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The…

— Ron Currie Jr

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

— V. S. Naipaul

“It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of autobiography.”

— Santosh Kumar Das

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

— John Dufresne

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.”

— Ken Andersen

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives.”

— Thaddeus O. Lawrence

“Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

— Anonymous

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find…

— Robert Penn Warren

When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history of the…

— Margaret Atwood