Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.
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.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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.
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
My work was entirely nonfiction.