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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

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.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.

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

My work was entirely nonfiction.

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

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

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.