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

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

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

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.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

I like going back and writing fiction.