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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

I prefer fact to fiction.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.