“No one in life can ever match fiction”
“Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet, she said, for sheer unimaginableness.”
“Recollections are in the eye of the beholder. No two held side by side can ever quite match.”
“Fiction can be more real to the reader than reality itself because fiction is the essence of life”
“Fiction is hardly ever fiction.”
“Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.”