Now that I`m taking some time off from school, I`ve been reading a lot to make sure I don`t forget everything. It`s mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the `40s and `50s.
- Fred SavageI have written two nonfiction books, I`m embarrassed to say.
- Dirk BenedictI tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I`m writing I don`t like to read other fiction.
- Irvine WelshWhen I`m not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I`ve been writing quite constantly lately so I`ve been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
- Irvine WelshMy work was entirely nonfiction.
- Laura HillenbrandBut with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
- Laura HillenbrandThere is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there`s only narrative.
- E.L. DoctorowNonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That`s material that I really like.
- Rick MoodyEvery time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
- Joseph WambaughI enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
- Joseph WambaughMy father, Raymond F. Yates, was a successful writer of technical nonfiction and such a life seemed a reasonable alternative to real work.
- Brock YatesAh, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that`s my problem.
- Jonathan CoeI like to get paid for doing basic research, so it`s pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
- Alaina WalkerI think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
- Allynne JonesI`m working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
- Alta CharoI`ve written many nonfiction books, but that`s a special gift.
- Andrew Fanarapeople are really smart and engaged. There`s no better place in the country to write serious nonfiction. There`s no better place to be public intellectuals.
- Ayman Abdel NourOne of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don`t get through these books, ... If people don`t finish your book, then they don`t know what you`re talking about.
- Barbara Pratt