A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
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For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
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