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The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

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I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.

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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?

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As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

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The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.

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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.

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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.

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