“People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays…”— Anthony Powell, amazon.com
“I could never be as honest about myself in a piece of nonfiction as I could in any of my novels and so I gave up.”— Bret Easton Ellis, Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com