There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.
Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.