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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I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
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.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
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.
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