When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.
I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.
If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.