“If there was an apocalypse—zombies, the sun explodes, whatever—fiction writing as a job would be the thousandth priority behind SoulCycle instructors.”— Mary H.K. Choi, amazon.com
“The historian holds out a sieve and most of the past, the real past, goes through it. People’s feelings, people’s intimacies, they all go through the sieve, and all that’s left is a few scraps and lumps.”— Robert Lacy, forbes.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