“Fiction is life by design.”
“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate”
“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that any human being would like.”
“How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?”
“It is the very design of life to support life. ”
“That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in favor of work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death.”