What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.
I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.
He missed his imagined future.
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.
