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I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

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

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

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.