Best Quote by John Edgar Wideman

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires…

— Phil Keoghan

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing…

— Ann Patchett

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

— Sara Shepard

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't…

— Jim Woodring

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my…

— Scott Turow

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

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

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch