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If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Most fiction comes from your experience.

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.

I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.