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In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

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.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

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.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

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 fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.