Attention Quote by Ted Genoways

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more intellectual layer…

— Ted Genoways

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

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

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

— Ishmael Beah

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They…

— Errol Morris

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

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

One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms of their…

— Geoff Dyer

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

— Joan Didion

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

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell