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.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
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 must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
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