Fact Vs Fiction Quotes

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Iain Reid
“I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house.
‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’
Anybody can remember details if you ask them to, I say, but it doesn’t mean it actually happened that way.
I wait for him to make eye contact, which he does.
‘You have a point, Junior,’ he says.’ You’re right.”
Iain Reid, Foe

Joseph Raphael Becker
“Before accepting your guess
just based on how you feel,
let's admit we just don't know,
and discover if it's real.”
Joseph Raphael Becker, Annabelle & Aiden: Oh, The Things We Believed!

Why do I write fact-based fiction? With secrecy so inscrutable, I'm looking to needle someone
“Why do I write fact-based fiction? With secrecy so inscrutable, I'm looking to needle someone about someone or something.”
A.K. Kuykendall

Sari  Gilbert
“In Italian papers, rumor often takes the place of fact. Unconfirmed and overblown stories are often printed as fact - one trick is the frequent use of the conditional verb tense which translates into English as “is said to”...”
Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City