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The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.