Nonfiction famous quotes

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
-- Andy Richter

#Fiction #Stuff #Nonfiction

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

#Writing #Research #Nonfiction

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
-- Carl Hiaasen

#Trying #Nonfiction #Down And

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

#Bookstores #Nonfiction #Internet

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

#Stories #Use #Nonfiction

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

#Fans #Nonfiction #Novel

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

#Reality #Talking #Nonfiction

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

#Book #Two #Nonfiction

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

#Fiction #Narrative #Nonfiction

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

#Fiction #Narrative #Nonfiction

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
-- Elizabeth McCracken

#Omission #Nonfiction #Sin

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
-- Ellen Pompeo

#Book #Brain #Nonfiction

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
-- Erica Jong

#Fiction #Fiction And Nonfiction #Nonfiction

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

#Writing #Fiction #Nonfiction

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
-- James Frey

#Book #Fiction #Nonfiction

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
-- Jim Sanborn

#Artist #Nonfiction

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.
-- Jon Scieszka

#Reading #Book #Nonfiction

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
-- Jonathan Coe

#Nonfiction #Talent #Problem

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
-- Joseph Wambaugh

#Book #Writing #Nonfiction

My work was entirely nonfiction.
-- Laura Hillenbrand

#Nonfiction

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

#Book #Diaspora #Nonfiction

Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.
-- Mortimer Adler

#Appreciation #Book #Nonfiction

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

#Nonfiction #Telling The Truth #Constraints

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
-- Peter Morgan

#Reading #Nonfiction #Pleasure

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.
-- Phyllis Rose

#Art #Challenges #Nonfiction

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

#Succeed #Nonfiction #Results

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
-- Scott McCloud

#Thinking #Nonfiction

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
-- Seth Grahame-Smith

#Reading #Biographies #Nonfiction

Nonfiction is never going to die.
-- Tom Wolfe

#Nonfiction

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

#Careers #People #Nonfiction

I don't have time to read nonfiction.
-- W. P. Kinsella

#Nonfiction

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
-- Alice Mattison

#Writing #Pieces #Nonfiction

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
-- Garth Greenwell

#Nonfiction #Hints #Boundaries

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Literature #Nonfiction #American Literature

As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go.
-- John D'Agata

#Nonfiction #Students #Kind

For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction."
-- John D'Agata

#Order #Calling #Nonfiction

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in the standard sense of nonfiction, nor especially in the way we were thinking about nonfiction back then, in the late 90s.
-- John D'Agata

#Thinking #Way #Nonfiction

I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.
-- Kate Zambreno

#Lazy #Wish #Nonfiction

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
-- Kate Zambreno

#Criticism #Nonfiction #Mainstream

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Nonfiction #Technique #Realizing

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.
-- Wendy C. Ortiz

#Nonfiction #Imagine #Poet

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

#Nonfiction #Memoir

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
-- Will Hobbs

#Ideas #Nonfiction

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.
-- John McPhee

#Morning #Nonfiction #Hell

I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is going on with the president [Donald trump] and the parallels with [Richard] Nixon's presidency, I needed to know more about the man.
-- Laila Lalami

#Men #President #Nonfiction

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.
-- Lee Gutkind

#Clever #Objectivity #Nonfiction