The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
A novel is about people.
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.