I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have…

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't…

— Isabel Allende

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd…

— Cynthia Kadohata

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry…

— Akhil Sharma

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't…

— Michelle Zauner

“I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives.”

— Thaddeus O. Lawrence

I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my…

— Adam Morris

“We are all writers from an early age. Most of what we write is nonfiction—essays for school, letters to friends, memoranda to colleagues—in which…

— Sol Stein

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

— Joseph Wambaugh

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places…

— Simon Schama

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for,…

— Ben Mezrich

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

— Alafair Burke