I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.
I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?