11.   For Ms. Tan, writing fiction seems to have cleared up one deep-seated worry from the past, the feeling of not being understood.

12.   For Ishiguro, writing fiction was not his first choice of profession.

13.   He was admitted and plunged into writing fiction.

14.   If Albert Camus had made dances instead of writing fiction, they might have looked like the work of the choreographer John Jasperse.

15.   It was a bitter experience in the record business that set Coelho on the road to writing fiction.

16.   Mary, his wife, dutifully socializes, cares for the two school-age children and plays at writing fiction.

17.   Meanwhile, Boston Globe stars Mike Barnicle and Pat Smith were fired for writing fiction disguised as newspaper columns.

18.   No one accused him of writing fiction.

19.   Nor can I plead personal squeamishness, because I sometimes use these terms in private conversation and in writing fiction.

20.   Proulx compares writing fiction to immersing herself in a warm tub.