“Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.”
“A writer of stories is a liar.”
“There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.”
“What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?”
“She was many things, but a liar was not one of them.”
“She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.”