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 More Quotes by Kathleen Rooney More Quotes From Kathleen Rooney I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight. Kathleen Rooney invention trouble facts 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 candidate's sex tape? Kathleen Rooney crazy sex thinking 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 important writing thinking 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 are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction. Kathleen Rooney nonfiction realizing technique 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 happened as opposed to just what happened. Kathleen Rooney distance steps giving 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 in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear. Kathleen Rooney perspective choices believe
