I do watch the TV news from time to time, so I suppose there is a lot of fiction in my life already.

My reaction to fiction was actually the opposite of GadgetMan's. I had been reading a lot of non-fiction for a very long time and no non-fiction. Reading was starting to become a chore because of that. I started reading fiction again, and reading in general became much more pleasurable.

But that didn't lead to a life of TV and movie watching. Movies are too expensive. TV is usually too shallow.