“to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.” WellsLooksPastRememberLife IsMemoriesForgetFictionProseDevicesPassagesAutobiographyStatic Book:Time to Be in Earnest Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.” CoursesFictionAutobiography Author:P. D. James
“If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?” IfsFictionPridePeriodsOvercomingPrejudiceBrilliantNovelistsCredible Author:P. D. James
“Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.” UniverseBeliefFictionMoralCrimeEvidenceContraryRationalDespiteCrime Fiction Author:P. D. James
