What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Biographies Copy Share Image
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So… — Varley O'Connor Anything Copy Share Image
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs… — Varley O'Connor Brings Copy Share Image
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people. — Varley O'Connor Always Copy Share Image
