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“We identify with those stories, we want to get lost in them, forget the world for a few minutes, or hours, or days.” People tend to read fiction books more because they are able to go into their own world for the time they are reading the books. The world would rather have fiction books, non-fiction isn't something that you could read all the time it would get boring. The readers need to know that without fiction many books they've read won't be readable anymore because there's so many of them. As technology evolves we will have to adapt our fiction-making powers, and discover new ways of making our own lives worth sharing and documenting. Fiction will allow you to make your own life and to write about it without having to put everything that's the truth. Readers will be more interested if you put fictional pieces in the book and not have all nonfiction truthful thing in the whole book. Therefore without fiction in our books it will be a hard time trying to enjoy reading in…
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