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I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.