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Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

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

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.