Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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