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

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

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

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.