It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.
It's always fun to talk about a novel.
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
Fiction is socially meaningful.
I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
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