Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.
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.
Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
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