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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.
Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in the Gulf, it's all first person there.