I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
“I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal,… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“The joy of nonfiction is searching for balance between storytelling and reporting, finding a way to be both loquacious and observant.” — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks. — Paul Wahlberg Copy Share Image
“Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person… — Jen Glantz Copy Share Image
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're… — Valerie Owens Copy Share Image
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“With my popped ears, I could only hear the muffled humming of the MI-17’s powerful blades, so I focused my attention on… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
“Jenny slowly awoke on the sacrificial altar to an Ethereal Light that flamed through the east wall, a radiant aura of love… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing… — Deborah Blum Copy Share Image
I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image