In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
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