Constructs Quote by Melanie Benjamin

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

— Ovid

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

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

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure…

— Elia Suleiman

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

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do…

— Fred D'Aguiar

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

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem…

— Raymond Buckland

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and…

— Jeanette Winterson

I prefer fact to fiction.

— Richard Attenborough

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to…

— Philip Roth

What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to…

— Judy Delton