All kinds Quote by Leslie Jamison

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial…

— Joy Fielding

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure.…

— Roxane Gay

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

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

— Sarah Pinborough

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

— Anne Lamott

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have…

— Paul Beatty

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22…

— Isabel Allende

Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a…

— Lee Gutkind

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

— Tanith Lee