ThomasLitchford

This kind of stuff makes me feel better. Here’s Wallace on the differences between writing fiction and nonfiction:

I’ll be honest: I think of myself as a fiction writer. Fiction’s more important for me, so I’m more scared and tense about fiction, more worried about whether I’m any good or not. The weird thing is that when a couple of the nonfiction pieces got attention, then other magazines started to call. And then I start thinking of myself as doing that, too, and Mr. Ego gets in there and I begin worrying and sweating over that stuff.

Here’s the link. (Thanks to The Howling Fantods.)