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I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

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.