Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
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