“This isn't a tragedy. It's just non-fiction.”
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”
“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.”
“The reality that someone you love has died is its own tragedy. But it's separate, isn't it, from the way it happened?”
“Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.”
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”