There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle.

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.