“People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.” PeopleThinkingCan DoCasesNovelHappenedCircumstancesMemoirReverseBiographies Book:Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time Source: Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time
“The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.” WritingIdeasWholeAnswersNovelAbsurdInterviews Author:Anthony Powell