Lee Gutkind Quotes
Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.
Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.
The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.
The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.
