A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.