Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.
The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
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.
That's always the most productive research - research into tone, into voice. Facts are nice, too, but facts are more raw material than creative inspiration.
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.