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There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

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

I know how to write fiction well.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

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.