I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!

Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.