Getting 2 Know Mark Lavorato
What do you enjoy most about writing?
Mark Lavorato:I love that writing is its own structured education. In order to write fiction, particularly historical fiction, in an engaging, believable way, you need to know the time and setting and local issues at every level. And because I love to learn, I never choose settings or characters or times that are that familiar to me. This forces me to delve into the research, read theses, interview countless people. It impels me to grow. And to take that process and lay it out in a way that is as fascinating to read as it was to research, is immensely rewarding.
What are books for?
Mark Lavorato: Primarily books are there to move us, to make us feel or think or see in a way we haven’t before. And if you think of it that way, genre fiction and literature can both do the trick. The only difference is why people choose to read either. I think the reason we read genre fiction is primarily to escape, while the reason we read literature is to better understand who we are as human beings. Both of them take us to a different place. But we read one to dream, the other to wake.
Read more about Mark Lavorato’s novel Believing Cedric
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