I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.
One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.