“Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.”
Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist
Next Testament (Boom Studios, 2014)
“A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
The New York Times (18 September 1966)
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Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XV
Misquoted as "Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." by Laurence J. Peter in "Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time", among many others.
Following the Equator (1897)
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”
V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River
Source: A Bend in the River
G. K. Chesterton book The Club of Queer Trades
The Club of Queer Trades (1905) Ch. 4 "Speculation of the House Agent"
“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real when the unreal's real.”
Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber
Jia zuo zhen shi zhen yi jia,
Wu wei you chu you huan wu.
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 5
“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”
Isaac Asimov book Fact and Fancy
Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
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