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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

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 don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.