When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
'House of Cards' is aiming for truth, not accuracy.
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.
Mom and I are playing fictionalized characters of ourselves in 'Masaba Masaba.' The series is a slice of our lives, and reliving key moments, even though fictionalized, took me down memory lane.
