Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.
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 basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.