“Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation. There were worse things to be than fictional.”
“I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!”
“Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.”
“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”
“The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and attentiveness to language are vitally important.”