What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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MURPHY No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still tho... LEWIS BLACK Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. LEONARD MLODINOW I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air,... MARIGOLD WELLINGTON I heard versions of the speech before and I thought it was great. You go with your 'A' material. As ... AL FRANKEN I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - w... CRISTIANO RONALDO Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time try... CARL HIAASEN One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, com... JANE HIRSHFIELD Do not let the tears fool you. She lied and cheated once, she will again. 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