Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
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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.
Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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