“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”
“I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].”
“The best fiction is true.”
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”
“If it's fiction, then it better be true.”
“Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.”