I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.
It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.
The facts are always less than what really happened.
I deal in facts.
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.