The Green Knight's rules

Three principles of writing that I try to live by:

1. It’s all about the people, stupid.
2. Always entertain.
3. Fiction is memory.

What does the third one mean? Hard to say. But I think it means, ‘Only write those things that you would remember.’ In other words, the most interesting, dramatic or unusual bits. Those are things that live in the memory and in the pages of books.