"I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye."

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As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not the kind where people use composite characters and invented quotes. I hate that kind of nonfiction. But imaginative in the sense that good writing and unexpected structure and vivid reporting could be combined with presenting facts.

— David Quammen