Basic research Quote by Bruce Sterling

Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.

— Katherine Dunn

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

— Joseph Wambaugh

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

— Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel…

— Helen Dunmore

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

— Clive Cussler

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

— Will Hobbs

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

— Rick Moody

One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only…

— Max Joseph

If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when…

— Debra Dean

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda