Could Quote by Michelle Zauner

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

— Marilynne Robinson

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

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

For several years, I made my unofficial beat the stories, struggles, and politics of blacks in America. I wrote about other things, also, but…

— Cord Jefferson

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

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

My work was entirely nonfiction.

— Laura Hillenbrand

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

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At…

— Douglas Florian

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

— Jonathan Franzen

“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other African Americans.…

— N.K. Jemisin