Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most fiction comes from your experience.
I know how to write fiction well.
I read a lot of fiction.
Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.
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