Nonfiction Quotes

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

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

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.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

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.

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

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

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.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

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

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

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.

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