Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive…

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.…

— Debra Monroe

I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I…

— Jennifer Egan

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when…

— Uzodinma Iweala

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get…

— A. Scott Berg

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of…

— Rudolf Flesch

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

— Joan Didion

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 can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a…

— Jennifer Egan

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

— Jo Deurbrouck

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

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

— Ishmael Beah

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke…

— Joan Didion

I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't…

— William T. Vollmann

“Writing a nonfiction book should primarily be about establishing credibility and authority in a specific domain.”

— Hassan Osman