Nonfiction Quotes

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

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

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

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

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

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

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

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

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

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

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.

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this. This is a little outlandish".

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.

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

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

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.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

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

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.