Fiction

Who the hell are these people who ‘don’t read fiction’. Like fiction has no value; like there aren’t lessons to be learned just because the events didn’t happen.

People sometimes, man. Open your fucking eyes. Open your hearts. You can learn a lot about yourself in fiction. Fiction teaches us without telling us that which we can and can never be. I love it.

Just thought I’d let you know.

6 Responses to “Fiction”

  1. I’m with you. I love the old Lit Professor quote:

    “For it to be good fiction, it need not necessarily have happened, but it must be true.”

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  2. kmichelle14 Says:

    I completely agree – I write strictly fiction and you know, I find truths about my own life and the people around me coming out in my “fiction.” !!

    -K
    kristinmichelle14.wordpress.com

  3. Fiction? Ice cream? the sixties? Man, can I not do without. Well put.

  4. I put fiction in the search and came up with your blog. I was thinking about this today and trying to put into context what life would be like without music, art, story telling and it was a very, very grey world. Telling stories is as old as time and it was lovely to see someone spouting off passionately about it. Cheers!

  5. Good fiction makes me palpably feel in my body what is emotionally true.
    That goes for good fiction, film, art, music, dance, any form of cultural expression. We humans are mad to make and discover meaning, and we cannot live without stories. Thanks for your love of fiction!

  6. I am so impossibly with you on this one. I know everyone has their tastes- but it makes my blood boil when I hear that. And lately, I’ve heard it often.

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