Fact Vs Fiction Quotes

“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

“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 about someone or something.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“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