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Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

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

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.