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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.