Dave Clark Quotes

I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.

I'm not Mr. Hollywood. I'm a book writer.

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put my interest in the narrative writing of biographies.

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

Writing a book is not easy.