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I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.

I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

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

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

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