"Each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze." ~ Virginia Woolf ~

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means." ~ Oscar Wilde ~

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"One doesn't get an idea for a novel. The idea more or less gets you. It uses you as a kind of culture, the way a pearl uses an oyster." ~ Diana Chang ~

"Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before." ~ Margaret Halsey ~