Truth

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"I get really angry when someone says they don’t read fiction because it’s all made up and “not real.” Bullshit! Nothing is more real than fiction. Nothing helps us make sense of the real world more than fiction. Nothing instills in us empathy for others like fiction. As David Foster Wallace said, “Fiction’s about what it is to be a... human being.” That’s my favorite quote of all time, because nothing more true has ever been said."
 - Greg Zimmerman, trade magazine editor and blogger of contemporary literary fiction at The New Dork Review of Books