Book Quote by Dirk Benedict

A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.

— Min Jin Lee

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

— Calvin Trillin

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

— Ann-Marie Campbell

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

— Tim LaHaye

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

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

— Miranda July

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out…

— Dave Eggers

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

— Cory Monteith

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

— Anne Lamott

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong