I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least i… - Kathleen Rooney
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least i…
- Kathleen Rooney
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel. - Kathleen Rooney
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.
I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight. - Kathleen Rooney
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction… - Kathleen Rooney
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction…
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. - Kathleen Rooney
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happ… - Kathleen Rooney
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happ…
Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican … - Kathleen Rooney
Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican …
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