Events Quote by Peter Heller

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

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

— Jonathan Franzen

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

— Ricky Hatton

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

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms…

— Emily Susan Rapp

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and…

— William Zinsser

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

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

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

I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I…

— Jacqueline Woodson