“Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.” WayWritingLittlesLyingBitsNovelDeceptionNovel Writing Author:Joseph O'Neill
“Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.” LittlesSaidWalksDeceptionSpidersSpyPrettiest Author:Mary Howitt
“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.” WorldMayLittlesMadeDifferentRealFactsForceImaginationMemoriesCreationAbsolutesAvailableDeceptionWickedArbitraryDollsOutside WorldDummyReal Women Book:The Guermantes Way Source: The Guermantes Way