Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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