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My work was entirely nonfiction.
Nonfiction is never going to die.
Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.
I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.