Imaginary People Quotes
- If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in… — William Maxwell
- The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
- As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
- Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in… — Virginia Woolf
- In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must… — John Updike