"Stuart's island prison is about 800 yards by about 400 yards, both south and east of Singapore. Does it exist? Of course it does; vast number of islands of that description do. My first novel."
"Jude's ambitions are thwarted most cruelly in the town of Christminster, which non-existent location probably caused Hardy less trouble than calling the town by its true name, Oxford."
"Zorn's adventures and romances take place in Roknor, a small holiday resort I placed on the north Mediterranean coast. If you really, really, really want to see a town of that description, try Antibe."
"Trollope didn't want to be too exact with the location of the town in which his clergymen acted out their doings, so he called it Barset in Barsetshire, which is actualy Oxford in Oxfordshire."
"I read this many years ago, and in the curdling of my brain since then, I came to imagine that Royale Les Eaux was a real french town. But it is not; Fleming composited several small towns together."
"Similarly, though the islands of the West Indies certainly exist, Dr. No's island does not. But it's description is representative of many a small West Indian island, so in a sense, it does."
