Nonfiction Quote by Laura Hillenbrand

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for…

— Sara Sheridan

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

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

— Nell Freudenberger

The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go…

— Neal Stephenson

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I…

— Ben Mezrich

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into…

— Sara Paretsky

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

— Malcolm Gladwell

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The joy of nonfiction is searching for balance between storytelling and reporting, finding a way to be both loquacious and observant.”

— Peter Hessler

“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual details bringing…

— Christopher Beha

“Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can be sure…

— Elizabeth Forsythe