Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.
I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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