“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Incantation
“That is the best story he could find in his life, never mind if it's the truest: an artist's duty is always to tell the best story.”
"V. S. Pritchett: Midnight Oil," p. 227
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
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