Top 30 Quotes About Fact Vs Fiction

#1. The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures
I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

Paul Theroux

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#2. I'm a fan of short horror fiction ... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety ... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

George Stephen

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#3. There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.

T. Scott McLeod

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#4. the fundamentally paradoxical ways that our very subjectivities are constituted: as cultural scripts, as texts written before us as us. It is confusing being a novel, a piece of fiction that considers itself a simple fact.

Whitley Strieber

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#5. That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Anthony Holden

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#6. Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open
the only way to stop the story running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants.

Jeanette Winterson

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#7. As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Charles De Lint

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#8. Fact and fiction are different truths.

Patricia MacLachlan

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#9. I am a storyteller, spiraling fantasy and reality into mystical tales. That eerie space between fact and fiction, where only the brightest light can scare the shadows - you will find me there.

Sara Frost

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#10. People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

Laurel Nakadate

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#11. There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

Henry Petroski

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#12. The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Lindsay Wagner

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#13. Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

Douglas Adams

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#14. Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.

Alan Moore

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#15. It's perfect. Blurred lines; it's when fact and fiction become indiscernible. Fantasy and reality fade into a color of grey yarn and you become tangled up in it and can't escape into the world of black and white you desperately need as proof of the reality of life itself.

Scott Hildreth

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#16. In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer.

Adam Sisman

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#17. Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Halldor Laxness

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#18. The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

Stanley Elkin

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#19. Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction ... transcends the historical thriller.

Jeffery Deaver

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#20. But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Lord Byron

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#21. Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Arthur Smith

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#22. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Carol Alt

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#23. I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.

Flannery O'Connor

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#24. A life of fiction based on fact

Beau Smith

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#25. Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

Andrew Vachss

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#26. There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'

Kevin Barry

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#27. The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

Libba Bray

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#28. On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.

George Stephen

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#29. In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.

T.B. Christensen

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#30. When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Nalo Hopkinson

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