Accuracy Quote by Sidney Sheldon

The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial…

— Alex Berenson

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

— Pam Houston

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not…

— Akhil Sharma

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

— Nicole Krauss

Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life…

— Amitava Kumar

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to…

— Amitava Kumar

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every…

— Cary Fukunaga

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

— Laurent Binet

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

It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm…

— Michael Morpurgo

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area…

— Kevin Barry