Spurious Quotes

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.