Answer Quote by Jake Tapper

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

— Candice Millard

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating…

— Jeanette Winterson

This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“We can no longer allow them to write just stories and poems; we must teach them the forms of nonfiction writing as well, specifically…

— Troy Hicks

When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me…

— Misha Glenny

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

— William Zinsser

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

— Elif Batuman

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative…

— Judith Krantz

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was…

— Daniel H. Wilson

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it…

— Edwidge Danticat

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were…

— Douglas Preston

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

— Elizabeth Berg

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman