The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.