“And I could write it better than you ever felt it.”
“For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.”
“Sometimes fantasies are better than life.”
“Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a novel, and this meant that there really weren't enough characters to go round. Unless, of course, one wrote about people who were themselves writing novels. And what would the novels that these fictional characters were writing be about? Well, they would be novels about people writing novels.”
“For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.”