Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.

True stories are way more interesting.

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 like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction."

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.