Boarding school Quote by Jon Doust

“Readers are distrustful and, although they accept the rules of the proposed game upon entry, they remain on the lookout for the slightest contradiction…

— Marcos Giralt Torrente

“autobiographical novel. He fancied himself”

— Dinesh D'Souza

“The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld’s…

— Jon Doust

“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting…

— Todd Crawshaw

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams…

— Neil Gaiman

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants…

— adam johnson

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield

“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author’s questionable imagination…

— Penny Reid

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should…

— Wallace Stegner

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans