This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.
If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.
I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.
The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.
I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not what the actual series finale was.
You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.
Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.
A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.
'Anne of Green Gables'! I'd love to be the nosy neighbor that gives Anne a mouthful and then gets puts in her place.
In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story.
I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.'
Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.
I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.
I had directed a short film called 'Girvhi' earlier, on child labour. It was a fictional story. At that time, I realised I could direct a film if given a chance.
It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.
Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.
I want to create a superhero... which everyone will say that we have a superhero called 'A Flying Jatt'.
It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).
