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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

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

There’s more fiction in my life than in books, so I don’t bother with them.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

I don’t know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don’t know any criminals.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

Some of the food in Liquor is food I’ve really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.