“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.”
“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.”
“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
“Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.”
“Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.”
“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.”