Book Quote by Thomas Cahill

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out…

— Dave Eggers

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

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

— James W. Loewen

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as…

— Ted Genoways

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I Lay Dying,'…

— Amy Bloom

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

— Steve Earle

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

— Ferran Adria

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

— Ann-Marie Campbell

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the…

— Chris Abani

I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually…

— James Patterson