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One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.