Anything Quote by William Least Heat-Moon

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

The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think…

— Pankaj Mishra

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

— E. O. Wilson

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm…

— Leslie Jamison

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I…

— Iris Chang

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a…

— Francisco Goldman

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my…

— Scott Turow

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

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

— Diana Gabaldon