I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.
If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.