Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
Fay WeldonFiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.
Fay WeldonBecause clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!
Fay Weldon