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Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'
I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.
I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.
It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.
