It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.