Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It’s a paradox that’s at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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