“In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus” — Isaiah Hankel Copy Share Image
The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“They dump their bulky backpacks, weighed down with tools, food, poisonous chemicals, plastic piping, and tents, and begin cutting trees and clearing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way,… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Dear Younger Self, It's not just you. You really are different. And there's nothing wrong with that. Yes, it is hard. No,… — Julia Bascom Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Identify your Radar – it’s your brain functioning optimally; not a vague intuition or cosmic sixth sense. Train your Radar in key… — C.B. Brooks Copy Share Image
“The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success” — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
