I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared but I never was.