But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
“But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.”
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
“But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.”
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“But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.”
“I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.”
“The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.”
“Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.”
“I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.”
“When a horse and a jockey flew over the track together, there were moments in which the man's mind wedded itself to the animal's body to form something greater than the sum of both parts. The horse partook of the jockey's cunning, the jockey partook of the horse's supreme power. For the jockey the saddle was a place of unparalleled exhilaration, of transcendence.”
“The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.”
“This idea of purity in nonfiction, it's silly to me.”
“People respect nonfiction but they read novels.”
“I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.”
“Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.”
“I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.”