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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.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.
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.
I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.
What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
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!
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.