"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward:……" — Laura Hillenbrand

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• I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say. — Dirk Benedict
• While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in… — Geraldine Brooks
• I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages,… — Mitch Albom
• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask… — Orson Scott Card
• I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer… — Sandra Cisneros
• All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about.… — George R. R. Martin
• Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget… — Fred Savage
• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who… — Tanith Lee
• You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you… — Zelda Popkin
• If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. — Lorin Stein
• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. — Irvine Welsh
• I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. — Scott McCloud

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