But I mind if people write real stuff and call it fiction.
There's a term that describes a situation when a court makes something out of nothing: It's called legal fiction.
Maybe whether something is called fiction or nonfiction becomes arbitrary when you don't have to classify books.
In other words it is happy to be called 'speculative fiction'.
And there is much use of facts, although it is called fiction.
Too true to call fiction, too gripping to put down.
So all our lives turn on what I may call moral or personal fiction...
I don't know if she has any interest in writing what people call serious literary fiction.
Older readers may remember a time when there existed something called "mainstream" fiction.
The interesting thing about what we call minor or second-level fiction can work to a filmmaker's advantage.