Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
It's true of so many fiction writers that I much prefer the essayistic work they did, whether it's David Foster Wallace's, or John Cheever's, or Nathaniel Hawthorne's.
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.
