Because Quote by Roxane Gay

I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.

— Martha MacCallum

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited…

— Geraldine Brooks

One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people…

— Thomas Cahill

I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment. Also, roughly around…

— John D'Agata

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

— Elif Batuman

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's…

— Mohsin Hamid

The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing…

— Nadine Gordimer

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

— E. O. Wilson

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places…

— Simon Schama

“As a nonfiction writer you must get on the plane. If the subject interests you, go after it, even if it's in the next…

— Meg Lukens Noonan

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

— Mike Cernovich