Book Quote by Dave Eggers

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people…

— Thomas Cahill

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it better. But…

— Chris Claremont

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

— Rick Bass

Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my…

— Colson Whitehead

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of…

— William T. Vollmann

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

— Ann-Marie Campbell

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

— Anna Quindlen

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

— Marilynne Robinson

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais