One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.” — Robert Edsel Copy Share Image
“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.” — Edmund Alexander Sims Copy Share Image
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Losing is hard for everyone, but losing a race you thought you would win is devastating.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to comprehend the ache in your gut when you see things going wrong and can’t figure out how to fix… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Get immersed in the beauty that surrounds you. No filters, edits, or adjustments. Experience the colors, sounds, textures and smells within your… — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration,… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“I still care about physical books, gravitate to handsome editions and pretty dust jackets, and enjoy seeing rows of hardcovers on my… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“It’s a powerful experience, shitting. There’s something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
“We go around the room, introducing ourselves. 'I'm Hamza, I'm a friend of John's, I suppose,' he says a little reluctantly. Hamza… — John Safran Copy Share Image
“Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening… — Jane Taylor Starwood Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The National Party's Barnaby Joyce has mocked Pastor Daniel for calling bottle shops 'Satan's stronghold'. It occurs to me that if Pastor… — John Safran Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period;… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“I’ve never been with a boy who hasn’t seen me naked. It’s always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep. Don’t chalk it… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“Right’ was not how I would describe the AFL’s decision to play our final against Geelong at Skilled Stadium. It had always… — Matthew Pavlich Copy Share Image
“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. A vigorous totalitarian order requires that the people be invested in the leader's… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
