Who said “Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience…”?

“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.”

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

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

“When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.”

“Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.”

“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”

“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!”

“I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.”

“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”