All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

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

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

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

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and the other who stood aside and watched with a disinterested ironic eye.