History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
