If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.