Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.
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Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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