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Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

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

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.