“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”
“All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.”
“Do you watch Cops on TV?”“I love Cops,” he said. “It’s like my life, but with the boring parts taken out.”
“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
“Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out arose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patientlyand the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.”
“All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken on the world’s hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?”