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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
Source: Interview in Friends (London, 30 Oct. 1970; repr. in Re/Search, no. 8/9, San Francisco, 1984).
-- J G Ballard, (Nov 15 1930-2009), English novelist; He writes books of surrealistic fiction with apocalyptic themes; wrote the best-selling novel Empire of the Sun, 1984.