“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true. Real becomes Not-Real when the Unreal's Real.”

“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.”

“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.”

“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the real one.”

“When the real and the imaginary become indistinguishable the real becomes a fetish.”

“All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.”