Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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.
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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