“For one never makes a film out of nothing. To shoot a film is always to shoot something, be it fiction or reality, and the more shaky the reality, the more solid the fiction must be.”
“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life”
“Reality never has to make sense. Fiction does.”
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction, the edges of reality must be blurred creatively to keep the reader's interest.”