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But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

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.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

I tend to read non-fiction.

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Most fiction comes from your experience.