Also Quote by Anthony Holden

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

— Louise Brown

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper

I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write it as…

— Melissa Febos

“But fiction is not, as many nonwriters seem to think, a random grab bag of made-up whimsies, as undisciplined and unreasoned as a dream.…

— Helen Benedict

“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication. It does…

— Niedria Kenny

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.…

— Debra Monroe

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary. Do whatever…

— Joshua V. Scher

I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines. Things that…

— Don Winslow

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

— Michael Korda