Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.