Experience Quote by David Shields

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

— Rick Moody

I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books…

— Simon Rich

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

— David Sedaris

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction…

— Irvine Welsh

Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a…

— Lee Gutkind

Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love…

— Steve Erickson

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to…

— Ken Follett

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

— Vanna Bonta

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my…

— Scott Turow

I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have…

— Kameron Hurley

I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction. I have kind of had to explain or justify some…

— Rachel Dolezal

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires…

— Phil Keoghan