“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
“It is quite true that today a great deal of art grows out of exhibitionist impulses. Certainly some of the worst does. Maybe some of the best. It may even be possible that all art involves a certain exhibitionism at least of some vague sublimated kind.”— Walter Ong, cdm.slu.edu