Accuracy Quote by Lion Feuchtwanger

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is…

— Tony Kushner

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding,…

— Geraldine Brooks

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories;…

— Agnes Repplier

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in…

— C. V. Wedgwood

I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know, that is…

— Michael Haneke

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

— E. L. Doctorow

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement…

— Ken Burns

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

— Mario Vargas Llosa