Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.