Of course, this is a writer’s stock-in-trade, this constant manipulation of fact and fantasy to get, not necessarily at the truth, but at the trueness, the realness that becomes one’s own particular reality, or as much of it as one can bear. In life, as in art, fiction affords great sanctuary to the vulnerable.—Mary McGarry Morris

And when I first read Dostoyevsky, there was probably no one that was more unlikely to become a writer than me, and yet somehow I did it and I believe you can do it. I mean, I think the universe will come out and help you once you get yourself straight and get on the right road..—Tom Jones, interviewed by Jim Schumock

I feel that fiction—all art, really, any art form, but reading fiction and poetry, especially—ought to have the potential to change your life. It ought to make you a better human in the world. It ought to help you understand other people.—Antonya Nelson, interviewed by Susan McInnis

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