“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.”
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
“This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is.”
“If you make fiction just as valuable as reality, then any reality you don't need can be a delusion”