The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction..
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life..
Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction..
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative..
The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up y….
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life..
Underconfidence breeds underachievement..
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an a….
As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently..
Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes..
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction..
I just tried to build on my failures..
I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..
The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scene….
You can't control what you can't measure.
I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up….
I've been indicted for rules that don't even exist..
I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be..
No nation can advance unless the old ideals of exploration and adventure are lived. There must be lives lost in flying, as in every other step of pro….
You don't get nothing and like it..
Nothing is 'just' anything with you.