They actually said it ...  

Herman Rosenblat, whose best-selling "memoir" of his Holocaust® love affair with his wife was yanked off the market by the publisher when parts were proven false, insisted to ABC News in February that he never lied.   Of his heartbreaking, well-worn story that his non-imprisoned future wife lovingly tossed apples to him over a fence at his concentration camp (which physically could not possibly have happened, according to historians), Rosenblat said:  "It wasn't a lie. Even now, I believe it, that she was there and she threw the apple to me. In my imagination, it was true."

[ABC News, 2-18-09]

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"The Rebbe leaned forward as if to measure me up and said 'with more than anger: 'That means you are writing lies!'
 
"I did not answer immediately. The scolded child within me had nothing to say in his defense. Yet, I had to justify myself:
 
"Things are not that simple, Rebbe. Some events do take place but are not true; others are - although they never occurred."

- From Elie Wiesel’s book "Legend of Our Time," New York, 1982