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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.
Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.
Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.
Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.
I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.
One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.
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 of you.
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.
I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
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.
My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
