Engaged Quote by Phillip Lopate

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'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

— Lynne Tillman

My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can…

— George Saunders

“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don’t…

— Norman Mailer

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people…

— Nick Earls

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

— Elif Batuman

I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction. I have kind of had to explain or justify some…

— Rachel Dolezal

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about…

— Alice Munro

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover…

— Frederick Wiseman

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

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That…

— Janet Fitch