Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
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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.
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
I rather like getting away from fiction.
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