Fiction And Nonfiction Quotes

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

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

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

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

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

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

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

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

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.