I would say that, at this point, writing fiction provides me with about half of the income I need for our household to stay afloat.
The novel - at its best - is driven by ideas, by the realisation that the most important ideas can only be explained and particularised through the fiction provided by the medium of novel.
In the video game Assassin's Creed, fiction provides a solution to this kind of riddle: Gamers plunge into the main character's genetic memory archives to share vivid recollections of Jerusalem and Italy during the Renaissance.
His fiction provides a bracing corrective to American innocence about our image abroad.
Henríquez's fiction provides intense close-ups of young Panamanians whose lives are in enormous flux.
Then, there's something that I think of as the space that a work of fiction provides the reader to feel emotionally and intellectually invested in the text.
To Kill A Mockingbird, the first book that springs to mind when you think of politics, diversity and fiction, provides another example.
A Cambridge University study by Maria Nikolajeva, professor of education, found that "reading fiction provides an excellent training for young people in developing and practising empathy and theory of mind, that is, understanding of how other people feel and think".
Leader, a professor of English literature at Roehampton University in England and a specialist in postwar British fiction, provides a detailed and convincing portrait of Amis in his times, but it can be an oddly bland and bloodless picture.
Don't they get what they're signing up for?" On Election Day, The Atlantic's Sophie Gilbert pointed out, "speculative fiction provides a framework for mapping out the future.
