Nonfiction Quotes

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

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

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

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

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.

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.

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.

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

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

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.

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.

There are 1, 440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

The most meaningful hopes and dreams don’t come from outside sources—they come from within.

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you’re trying to accomplish.

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you’ll feel.

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.

It’s up to you to make your dreams real.

If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change.

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life—now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.

Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person’s values are unique, so are each person’s dreams.

Three out of every one hundred people set goals. Even fewer write them down… You can be someone who does have goals—A Goal Getter!

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.

Money has the power to get, all that you want.Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.