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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.

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

Most fiction comes from your experience.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

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

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.

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

I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.