I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
I read almost exclusively nonfiction when I read, because even though it's harder to find a great true story, when you find one, the idea that it actually happened is immensely powerful.That's what moves me the most.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
I love nonfiction the most. It's hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that's why I'm not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They're hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he's terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way.
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
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