Quotes About Fiction

I am not an autobiographical writer.

My books aren't autobiographical.

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.

In a drama, the camera doesn't exist. In a documentary, it does.

I'm a fan of Douglas Adams, yes.

I don't like dragons and blood all that much.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.

I live in a little dream world.

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

For me, Edge was just a character.

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.