Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 4).
“Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going.”
Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 29.
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Charles Reiss, Hugh Muir, "Cherie suicide bombing gaffe", Evening Standard, 18 June 2002, p. 1
Speech at the launch of Medical Aid for Palestinians charity, 18 June 2002, referring to Palestinian suicide bombers; she later apologised for any offence caused.
On feeling that writing fiction was fake and embarrassing in “Rachel Cusk: 'Aftermath was creative death. I was heading into total silence'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/24/rachel-cusk-interview-aftermath-outline in The Guardian (2014 Aug 24)

“Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.”
Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924

“The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.”
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 184)