Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.