Creative Quote by Lee Gutkind

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

— Michael Korda

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

— Jake Tapper

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

— Wells Tower

Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they…

— Lee Gutkind

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

— Joan Didion

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

— Tom Robbins

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,…

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

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 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