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“Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.”

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Author:Mitch Albom

“When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.”

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Author:Marya Hornbacher

“In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.”

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Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.”

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Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land”

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Author:Luc Sante

“I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.”

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Author:William Least Heat-Moon

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

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Author:Louise Brown

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

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Author:Bruce Sterling

“I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.”

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Author:Leslie Fiedler

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

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Author:Rick Bass

“I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.”

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Author:Hope Davis

“Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.”

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Author:James Frey

“I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.”

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Author:Jonathan Franzen

“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.”

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Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?”

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Author:Marya Hornbacher

“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.”

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Author:Carl Hiaasen

“My work was entirely nonfiction.”

Author:Laura Hillenbrand