Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
Jonathan Coe

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Joan D. Vinge

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
Laura Hillenbrand

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
Joseph Wambaugh

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
Joseph Wambaugh

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
Dirk Benedict

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
Bruce Sterling

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
Jonathan Franzen

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh

I 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.
Leslie Fiedler

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
Judith Krantz

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Louise Brown

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
Tim LaHaye

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Anne Lamott

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
Peter Matthiessen

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Orson Scott Card

My work was entirely nonfiction.
Laura Hillenbrand

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
Rick Moody