Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.