Fiction Is The Great Lie That Tells

...i Have Come To Make Distinctions Between What I Call The Academy And Literature, The Moral Equivalents Of Church And God. The Academy May Lie, But Literature Tries To Tell The Truth.

I'll Tell You The Secret. When You Begin With A Character, You Want To Begin By Creating A Villain.

Mama Learned To Laugh With Them, Before They Could Laugh At Her, And To Do It So Well No One Could Be Sure What She Really Thought Or Felt.

It Has Seemed To Me That Literature, As I Meant It, Was Embattled, That It Was Increasingly Difficult To Find Writing Doing What I Thought Literature Should Do - Which Was Simply To Push People Into Changing Their Ideas About The World, And To Go Further, To Encourage Us In The Work Of Changing The World, To Making It More Just And More Truly Human.

It's Fun To Tease People About Where Fiction And Life Intersect.