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I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.