One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.