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You learn a lot, writing fiction.

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

I read a lot of fiction.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.