Writer Quote by Virginia Wolff

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

— Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

— Virginia Woolf

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris

I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It…

— Elif Batuman

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so…

— Philip Roth

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

— Ulysses S. Grant

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own…

— Kelly Link

“stories are better than fiction, so let’s hope for some real-life sequels.”

— Katherine Ramsland

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

— Kristi Jacobson

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better…

— Walter Salles

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

— Marcy Dermansky