Absolutely Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

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 started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.…

— Debra Monroe

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

— David Shields

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

— Marya Hornbacher

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

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

— Joseph Wambaugh

That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels…

— Lucas Mann

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

— Marilynne Robinson