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Gay Talese once said" "I believe that if you go deep enough into characters they become so real that their stories feel like make-believe, they feel like fiction. I want to evoke the fictional current that flows beneath the stream of reality." The quote means that fiction is deeper than reality, fiction strikes more and makes better stories. When doing research he, as a journalist, goes deep into his characters that even through they may seem ordinary he finds in them something extraordinary, facts lead him to fiction. Talese wants to write a fictional reality, a story  based on reality that becomes fiction.