Nonfiction Quotes

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

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

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

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

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

What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not defined by its content, by its "about"-ness. Where you read it irrespective of whether you're interested in the subject.

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

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.

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.

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.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

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

My work was entirely nonfiction.

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.

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

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

Nonfiction is never going to die.

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.

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

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.

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.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

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

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

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

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

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

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

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.

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

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

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.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

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

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

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

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."

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.