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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Most fiction comes from your experience.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

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

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

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.