Deals Quote by Ovid

I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what…

— Melanie Benjamin

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

— Nadine Gordimer

I deal in facts.

— Louis Freeh

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

— Virginia Wolff

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

— Katherine Anne Porter

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

— Isabel Allende

“Fiction is truth not limited by facts.”

— Peter Maughan

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne

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