“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
“Reality never has to make sense. Fiction does.”
“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.”
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”