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The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.