Computer Quote by Jennifer Egan

I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I…

— Jennifer Egan

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

When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't.

— Paul G. Tremblay

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

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it…

— Robin Wells

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office,…

— D. B. Weiss

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

— E. O. Wilson

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke…

— Joan Didion