“Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.”
“Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.”
“Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was undisguisedly a bronchial white flag.”
“Fiction writers can’t be trusted. They make things up.”
“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”
“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”