I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
I rather like getting away from fiction.
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.
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.