create fiction

“Then when you look back on your life, there’s structure. You create fiction, a narrative to make sense of what’s going on.”

Only by unleashing the fictionality of fiction, the imaginativeness of the imagination, the dream songs of our dreams, can we hope to approach the new, and to create fiction that may, once again, be more interesting than the facts.

The notion that humans are the only species on the planet who create fiction kind of blew my mind.

“And I don’t see any happy endings. I can’t create fiction from what I see as fact.”

Not only does Berlin make use of her life to create fiction, she also takes real scenes and fictionalizes them over the course of stories from different angles so that we begin to recognize key moments as multifaceted.