Been Quote by Katherine Dunn

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by…

— Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

— Rick Moody

I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom…

— Michelle Gagnon

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

— Lynne Tillman

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

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

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

— Will Hobbs

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 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