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

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

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.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.