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Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

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

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

I think the fundamental thing about writing fiction is that you write what interests you and what inspires you. It can't be forced. I see no need to write about anything else or any other type of world.