When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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.
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
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.