About Quote by Ishmael Beah

The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more intellectual layer…

— Ted Genoways

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They…

— Errol Morris

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like…

— Charles Stross

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited…

— Geraldine Brooks

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms…

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping…

— Stewart O'Nan

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

— Irvine Welsh

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as…

— Ted Genoways

I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The…

— Ron Currie Jr