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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

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

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

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 view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

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

I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

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