Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them…

I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping…

— Stewart O'Nan

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

“How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a “favorite failure” of yours? Many, many moons…

— Timothy Ferriss

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle…

— Annie Dillard

“Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.”

— Debbie Tosun Kilday

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

— Lee Gutkind

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how…

— Marya Hornbacher

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline.…

— Jesmyn Ward

“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and literature is…

— Geoff Dyer

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative…

— Judith Krantz

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some…

— John Gimlette

Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but…

— Laurie Alberts

On 'Catfish,' I'm a co-host and onscreen cameraman, maybe the second onscreen cameraman after Wes Bentley's turn in 'American Beauty,' which is funny and…

— Max Joseph

The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a…

— Lee Gutkind

“I shut my ears, averted my eyes, turning instead to what I thought at the time was pain's antidote: silence. I was wrong... Silence…

— Tracy K. Smith