Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...compare A Time to Kill with A Painted House? -Julie Njeri, Nairobi, KenyaThere are moments when I seriously try to assess what I am writing and how I am writing. There has been no deliberate effort to change anything. I still aspire to write a high quality of popular fiction. If you read The Appeal and went back and read The Firm, I am not sure you could tell a difference in the writing style...
...because The Appeal-which comes out in two weeks-is about politics and sleazy legal stuff in Mississippi. The timing could not be worse. I would not write about those guys because I know all of them and I would never go there. Honestly, truth is far stranger than fiction. Nobody would have believed The Innocent Man if I had written it as a novel. And if I wrote the story that I think is unfolding down there as a novel, people wouldn't believe...
What do you like to read for fun? -Martin Trafoier, Schlanders, ItalyMy goal this year is to read every book by John Steinbeck. I read most of them years ago as a student. I just finished a Mark Twain binge. It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer...
...life, he traded coffee, dived for pearls, smuggled arms and trafficked hashish off the coasts of East Africa and southern Arabia. Upon his return to France, he began a second career as a highly prolific author, drawing on his experiences to produce more than 60 works of fiction, biography, history and journalism. He even dabbled in painting and photography...
...complex De Monfreid who steals the show, of course. His voice - shifting easily from waggishness to bristling sarcasm to weighty understatement - is so dynamic that it ultimately doesn't matter whether he is using it in the service of fact or fiction. De Monfreid was at once a wild man and a philosophe, whose tender soliloquies on the joys of an unfettered life at sea, with nothing but the naked stars above, retain an immense power to seduce. While Hashish may be an acutely self-conscious literary artifact, it is also a singular self-portrait of a defiant spirit...