Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.