Writing Quote by Meg Lukens Noonan

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

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents…

— Walter Kirn

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by…

— Virginia Woolf

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time…

— Jeff Abbott

“I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...”

— The Beatles

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some…

— John Gimlette

One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only…

— Max Joseph

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

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

— Jonathan Franzen