I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years…

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

— Laurie Alberts

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

“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.”

— Jo Deurbrouck

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

— Lee Gutkind

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

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

— Eileen Pollack

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've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just…

— Candace Bushnell

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it…

— Edwidge Danticat

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were…

— Douglas Preston

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

— Elizabeth Berg

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper