“People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.” PeopleThinkingWellsCharacterPoorFictionKnownGossipWell KnownColumnsGood CharacterPoor Character Author:Fran Lebowitz
“gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.” FictionGossip Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.” HeartFictionTroubleGossip Author:John Dufresne
“If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.” PeopleIfsThinkingMadeFictionGossip Author:John Dufresne