Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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