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

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.