Couple Quote by David Foster Wallace

If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world.

— Robert Christgau

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing…

— Robert Greene

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines,…

— George R. R. Martin

I've always been a writer. I started getting paid for writing in college. Where it transitioned from commentary to journalism was in that shift…

— Melissa Gira Grant

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

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought…

— Kevin Maney