“Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.”— Joyce Rachelle Related Quotes “When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”— Clifton Fadiman “I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people–men and women alike–could go on to happier, more productive lives.”— Richard Ford “Helen’s books were her friends, “the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter,” she’d told him, ” and spend all night talking and never go to bed.”— Emma Clayton