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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.