Books Quote by David Grann

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

— Susanna Reid

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

— Rich Cohen

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

— Sara Sheridan

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

— Hilary Mantel

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

“The dividing line between a journalist and an author is very thin. If a journalist is not author, it is his or her call.”

— K.S.R. Menon

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

— Justine Larbalestier

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

— Ellen Goodman