This idea of purity in nonfiction, it's silly to me.
“This idea of purity in nonfiction, it's silly to me.”
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This idea of purity in nonfiction, it's silly to me.
“This idea of purity in nonfiction, it's silly to me.”
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“This idea of purity in nonfiction, it's silly to me.”
“I made a movie every single day growing up. It was just so fun to be able to make your friends laugh.”
“People get tired once they can see a formula or recognize a formula or see repeat imagery.”
“I want to keep making more stuff that I want to see in the world that doesn't exist yet.”
“I always have my iPhone with me, so I'm never without some way to capture what I need to.”
“I consider myself a bit of an eccentric, and I relate very deeply to other people that have niche obsessions.”
“I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.”
“Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.”
“You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.”
“Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!”
“I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.”
“Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them as they happened.”