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Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.