“People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonficti...” — Kevin Young Quote

“People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.”

“A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.'”

“Even Toni Morrison claiming Bill Clinton as 'black' could not prepare us for the election of America's first undeniably black president, Barack Obama.”

“Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.”

“You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.”

“I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.”