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Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

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

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

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

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.