“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”

“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”

“A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”

“Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.”

“There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.”

“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”

“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

“I wish I was fiction, I wish I was fact.”

“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.”

“We are journalists, and our mission is clear – to distinguish between facts and fiction.”