Quotes by Kathleen Rooney - Page 1

I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.
Kathleen Rooney / Writer
Facts
Invention
Trouble
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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.
Kathleen Rooney / Writer
Essays
Ingredients
Novel
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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.
Kathleen Rooney / Writer
Important
Thinking
Writing
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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?
Kathleen Rooney / Writer
Crazy
Sex
Thinking
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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.
Kathleen Rooney / Writer
Distance
Giving
Steps
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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.
Kathleen Rooney / Writer
Nonfiction
Realizing
Technique
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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 / Writer
Believe
Choices
Perspective
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