But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
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