"A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irrit…"

"I do not blame the words, for they are, as it were, choice and precious vessels, but I do deplore the wine of error w…"

"(You once said, "Fiction is NOT autobiography in a party dress." OK, then what is it?) NH: It's what happens after yo…"

"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch …"

"People substituted writing (fiction) for what was once spiritual life, poetry (chaotic words) for actual ecstasies. A…"

"Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposi…"

"The author of any work of fiction that is any good takes me so fully into his orbit that he becomes my friend; I thin…"

"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."

"Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can…"

"Nunc fabularum cur sit inventum genus, Brevi decebo. Servitus obnoxia, Quia, quae volebat, non audebat dicere, Affect…"