Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.
Curtis SittenfeldShe has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
Curtis SittenfeldI don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."
Curtis Sittenfeld