The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.