Quotes by Nonfiction It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. Erica Jong fiction-and-nonfiction nonfiction fiction I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up. Fran Lebowitz nonfiction facts looks Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?" Frederick Busch mistreated nonfiction facts I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading. Frederick Busch nonfiction reading writing I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. Garth Greenwell nonfiction hints boundaries What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not defined by its content, by its "about"-ness. Where you read it irrespective of whether you're interested in the subject. Geoff Dyer nonfiction book ideas With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are. George Saunders nonfiction honest trying Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction. James Frey nonfiction book fiction I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction. Jessa Crispin american-literature nonfiction literature I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist. Jim Sanborn nonfiction artist I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. Joan Didion nonfiction voice fiction Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. Joan Didion nonfiction pieces firsts As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go. John D'Agata nonfiction kind students For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction." John D'Agata nonfiction calling order I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in the standard sense of nonfiction, nor especially in the way we were thinking about nonfiction back then, in the late 90s. John D'Agata nonfiction way thinking Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning. John McPhee nonfiction hell morning I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994. Jonathan Franzen nonfiction enjoy writing Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. Joseph Wambaugh nonfiction writing book The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. Kate Zambreno mainstream nonfiction criticism I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability. Kate Zambreno nonfiction lazy wish «1234»