Creativity Quote by Jeanette Winterson

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

— Jonah Lehrer

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Fiction is always derived from something real.

— Anonymous

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

— Edwidge Danticat

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

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

— Joseph Conrad

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

— Douglas Adams

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric,…

— Camilla Gibb