Here is Michael Durda's review of John McPhee's new book: Draft No. 4. He ends the review by quoting McPhee:
“Creativity lies in what you choose to write about, how you go about
doing it, the arrangement through which you present things, the skill
and the touch with which you describe people and succeed in developing
them as characters, the rhythms of your prose, the integrity of the
composition, the anatomy of the piece (does it get up and walk around on
its own?), the extent to which you see and tell the story that exists
in your material, and so forth. Creative nonfiction is not making
something up but making the most of what you have.”
