Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

The history of most fictions would be far stranger than the fictions themselves ; but it would be a dark and sad chronicle.

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.

Historians may lie, but History cannot.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

معظم التاريخ ظن و بقيته من إملاء الهوى

The very first day a genuine scholar sits down to check Nehruvian history-writing against the facts, the empire of the JNU professors is finished. Because you see, facts are more eminent than even Jawaharlal Nehru and his university historians.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

هناك أوثان في هذا العالم أكثر من الحقائق

No history can be bad so long as it is true

History has no more validity than a novel.