With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes biography fiction literary
I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it. Blake Bailey academicbookishfind Change image and share on social
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough. Blake Bailey biographybookchoose Change image and share on social
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school. Daniel Tammet amountconsiderablyfiction share on social
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal. Robert Gottlieb appealbookcommercial Change image and share on social
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. Jonathan Frakes americanbaseballbiography share on social