Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
Literature is news that stays news.