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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

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

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.