Quotes on Nonfiction

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.