I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go…

For me, education is very important. It opens up vistas of life and makes it easy for you to deal with it, because if…

— Poonam Dhillon

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

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

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

— Jonathan Franzen

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

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

— Bruce Sterling

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 didn’t wholly identify with the collective experiences of children in either place. I had one foot in each culture, but no firm footing…

— Padma Lakshmi

You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

— Brett Morgen

“Heart is a vessel of collective experiences”

— Fahad Basheer

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

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I…

— Ben Mezrich

“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