“Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.”— John Cheever Related Quotes “I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it’s my ambition to create something compelling – something unputdownable and riveting – that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.”— Sara Sheridan “Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.”— Shannon Celebi “I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life — a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it — filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction…”— Louis Auchincloss