Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.