
On the congruent nature of fiction and nonfiction in “Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/viet-thanh-nguyen-sides/ in The Writer (2017 Jan 17)
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
On the congruent nature of fiction and nonfiction in “Viet Thanh Nguyen: From both sides” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/viet-thanh-nguyen-sides/ in The Writer (2017 Jan 17)
“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real when the unreal's real.”
Jia zuo zhen shi zhen yi jia,
Wu wei you chu you huan wu.
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 5
“A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
The New York Times (18 September 1966)
“There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there’s only narrative.”
New York Times Book Review (27 January 1988)
“Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.”
Next Testament (Boom Studios, 2014)
“Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.”
Or, for that matter, as true.
Source: The Areas of My Expertise (2005), p. 18
“Fiction is never admitted where truth may work.”
Wright v. Gerrard (1617), Lord Hobart's Rep. 311.