Fiction Quote by Peter Maughan

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”

— Oakley Hall

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”

— Ben Monopoli

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your…

— Cassandra Clare

“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”

— V.S. Naipaul

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

— Virginia Wolff

“To me, fiction is a fast-track to the sort of truth with which facts interfere.”

— Sarah Terez Rosenblum

“what is fiction in particular is truth in general.”

— Anonymous

“Truth has the structure of a fiction.”

— Lacan

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

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is the lie that illuminates a greater truth.”

— Kevin Fox