David Foster Wallace touched on this risk in his essay on television and fiction.
To make a living off of fiction, most writers must be as attuned to marketing as they are to writing.
The narrator returns to fiction whenever he struggles to make sense of his fractured identity.
Ehrlich is an American travel writer, fiction writer, poet, and essayist.
On Monday, the prize committee announced that it had not chosen a winner for the fiction award for the first time since 1977.
All this, B found very tiresome, and cared only for the lightest kind of fiction, when she read at all.
Let fiction, at least, cease with life, and let us be serious over the grave.
(f) Omitting book numbers for fiction saves a vast amount of time and sacrifices little.
If Smaltz had been the villain of fiction, he would have been a coward as well.
Ancient mythology venerated the olive tree above all others, and invested it with many charming bits of fiction.
late 14c., "something invented," from Old French ficcion (13c.) "dissimulation, ruse; invention," and directly from Latin fictionem (nominative fictio) "a fashioning or feigning," noun of action from past participle stem of fingere "to shape, form, devise, feign," originally "to knead, form out of clay," from PIE *dheigh- (cf. Old English dag "dough;" see dough). As a branch of literature, 1590s.
Literature that is a work of the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. Some examples of modern works of fiction are The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.
