Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
I know how to write fiction well.
I don't read fiction at all.
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
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