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Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

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

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

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.

I tend to read non-fiction.

Most fiction comes from your experience.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

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

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.