Quotes About Kathryn Harrison

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

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.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

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.