A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.
Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
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