I really feel like there have been moments of some level…

As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not the kind…

— David Quammen

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 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 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

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 write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

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

— Laurie Alberts

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

— Celeste Ng

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

— Debbie Tosun Kilday

“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

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

“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