Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.
The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.