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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.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'