#Fiction

"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."

"I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city"

"If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."