There’s a particularly interesting interview with Mitch Albom from October’s issue of Writer’s Digest that just went up online.
In the interview, he says:
I view them all the same. I don’t look at it as sportswriting. I don’t look at it as novel writing. I don’t look at it as non-fiction writing or inspirational writing. I’ve always said I have one skill. That skill—if I have it at all—is storytelling. I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, “Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?” I never think that just because I’m saying something, it’s important. I’ve never felt that.
Read the whole interview here: http://writersdigest.com/article/mitch-albom-storytelling
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