Who said “There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.”?

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.”

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”

“Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.”

“It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

“The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.”

“In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.”