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There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.