Nonfiction Quotes

• I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the city, starting work at a nonfiction imprint at a reputable publishing house, and excited about being on track to becoming the writer I had always wanted to be.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Program
  • Excited
  • Becoming

• With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the move to nonfiction didn't feel all that dramatic - just another half-step to the right.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Moving
  • Feels
  • Research

• I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

  

  Wendy C. Ortiz
  • Love
  • Imagine
  • Read

• People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Think
  • Nonfiction
  • Respectability

• Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Impossible

• Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

  

  Rick Bass
  • Succeeds
  • Nonfiction
  • Gratifying

• Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

  

  Emily Susan Rapp
  • Poetry
  • Choice
  • Decisions

• Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Different
  • Process
  • Fiction

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