“If you want to tell the truth, write fiction”
“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
“I write what I feel, fiction with a twist of truth. I don't write because I want to, I write because I have to.”
“One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.”
“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”
“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to tell that person's story.”