“Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.”
“But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.”
“Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.”
“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.”
“Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.”
“He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.”