I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.