Non-fiction writers are not praised and remembered the way fiction writers are. Yet, it is important to have both.

From a grocery list, a technical manual, a journal/ biography, an editorial, self-help/ how-to, text book, legal document, recipe, or a political speech, they write about reality. As do fiction writers in their way. But people would rather read the truth with the idea of it being fiction. Rather than reading about the truth, cold, hard plain, facts. People don't really want to know the truth when it isn't what they want to hear.

So fiction is celebrated and honoured while non-fiction sits on a shelf getting dusty, if noticed at all.

I wonder if fiction could exist without non-fiction? How would fiction writers find all their facts to spin into stories if it weren't for those non-fiction writers keeping track of the world?