Fiction and life: points of convergence and divergence

I want to respond to a blog post I read today by the literary agent Nathan Bransford entitled ‘undercooking a novel’ who comments about how a writer’s task is not to represent life “as its actually happen” for as he assert “we have, well, real life for that”. Instead Bransford’s stand is that a writer’s task is to “elevate life and add spices and all the rest. Writers interpret real life, elevate it, reorder events, and serve up something perfectly balanced and ready for public consumption."