“Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up.”
“Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
“The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.”
“A novel is a made-up work about made-up people in a made-up place, all of which is very real.”
“Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.''- 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.”
“True friends share everything, except the past before they met.”