Quotes About Author

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

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

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!

I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.

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.

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.

I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent, horror fiction.

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

As soon as I get the chance, I'll be back spouting nonsense on the microphone.

The first 'Interdimensional Cable' episode is amazing because it's filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.

The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

Now, I have a confession to make. I hate warm-ups with a passion. Worst part of the whole day. Nonsense, they are.