Being Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— E. L. Doctorow

“Fiction is truth not limited by facts.”

— Peter Maughan

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

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

“In other words, that works of history are mere collections of facts. It is fiction alone that can show us the true nature of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on facts and…

— Fiona Barton

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

History is filled with fictional people.

— Anonymous

People don't care about facts anyway; in my country, we have 'alternative facts.' But if you can make somebody feel something - and oftentimes…

— Torrey Peters

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

— Paul Harding