Francine Prose on the pleasures of writing non-fiction vs. fiction | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires

Sandy Asviratham interviewing Francine Prose. She’s enjoying the break that nonfiction represents. “It’s so much more fun, because I can use the skills I’ve figured out as a novelist to create narratives, but since the story is there already, there’s no terror that you’re not going to find a way out.” At this stage, is she able to trust the process of tale-telling when she sits down to face the blank page? I don’t think you ever get to that point of complete trust. But somehow, it gets done.”