There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
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