The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The truth is often more surprising than fiction.
A writer must be willing to be misunderstood.
"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."