“Writing a nonfiction book should primarily be about establishing credibility and authority in a specific domain.” — Hassan Osman Copy Share Image
I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling. — Ishmael Beah 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
I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston 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
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not… — Elif Batuman 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
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.” — Jo Deurbrouck Copy Share Image
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
