Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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.
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.
Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.