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Writing Nonfiction Quotes by Joan Didion
- Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
- Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all…
- Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you…
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- Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion
- Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion
- 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
- Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion
- I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like… — Michelle Gagnon
- Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson