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

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Fiction is socially meaningful.

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

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.