Nonfiction Quotes

Nonfiction Quote of the day

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

Invest in yourself. your career is the engine of your wealth.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.