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One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.