I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“- Why should we be feminists? Why not egalitarians? - "Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
“So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“It turns out that stating a problem clearly often suggests its solution. p 32” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
“The good news is we don't have to suffer alone. We don't have to carry the burdens of our messy lives alone.… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
“It's nice to know in my life Jesus is behind me. There have been times when I thought that I was going… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often, a bar cursed because of a girl… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
“Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can… — Robert Hass 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
