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I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

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

I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.