Books Quote by Dale Mayer

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

— Rick Moody

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Katherine Dunn

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

— Frederick Busch

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

— Cornelia Funke

My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she…

— Nick Offerman

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her…

— Scott McClanahan

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by…

— Stacy Schiff

“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke…

— Joan Didion