In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.