“I am a professional short-story writer and novelist. I write fiction and only fiction. […]I
“I am a professional short-story writer and novelist. I write fiction and only fiction. […] I have been writing fiction rather passionately, singlemindedly, perhaps insatiably, since I was 15 or so. […] I positively rejoice to imagine that, sooner or later, the finished product safely goes to the ideal private reader, alive or dead or yet unborn, male or female or possibly neither.“ -- source link