People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
-- Anthony Powell
   
Anthony Powell   Name:
Anthony Powell
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
British
Birth:
December 21, 1905
Death:
March 28, 2000
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