The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.
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.
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
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.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.