For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
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.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.