Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.