Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.