When man invents or produces anything of any value, volumes are written on the subject.
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Literature invents its own rules.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
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