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Nonfiction Quotes

1.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson

Authors on Nonfiction Quotes: John D'Agata Ann Patchett Kate Zambreno Frederick Busch Joan Didion David Shields Anne Lamott Jonathan Franzen Scott McCloud Dav Pilkey Barbara Kingsolver George Saunders W. P. Kinsella Mortimer Adler Cory Monteith Joseph Wambaugh Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Dave Eggers Elizabeth McCracken Wendy C. Ortiz Lorin Stein Kathleen Rooney Alice Mattison Laila Lalami Ellen Pompeo Jessa Crispin Will Hobbs E. O. Wilson Luc Sante Geoff Dyer Andy Richter Jim Sanborn Garth Greenwell
2.
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
Chris Abani

3.
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
Chuck Palahniuk

4.
I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
Cory Monteith

5.
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
Akhil Sharma

6.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
Dav Pilkey

7.
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.
Geoff Dyer

8.
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
Joseph Wambaugh

9.
I don't have time to read nonfiction.
W. P. Kinsella

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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

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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
Luc Sante

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

13.
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.
Sandra Cisneros

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

15.
When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.
Marya Hornbacher

16.
My work was entirely nonfiction.
Laura Hillenbrand

17.
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
Jonathan Franzen

18.
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
Fran Lebowitz

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

20.
Nonfiction is never going to die.
Tom Wolfe

21.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Peter Morgan

22.
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
Andy Richter

23.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
Scott McCloud

24.
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

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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

26.
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
James Frey

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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

28.
the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.
Phyllis Rose

29.
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
Ann Patchett

30.
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
Kate Zambreno

31.
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
Joan Didion

32.
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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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

34.
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

35.
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
George Saunders

36.
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.
Lorin Stein

37.
Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
Ann Patchett

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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

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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.
Joan Didion

40.
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
Barbara Kingsolver

41.
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

42.
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?"
Frederick Busch

43.
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.
Dave Eggers

44.
I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
Will Hobbs

45.
I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
Jim Sanborn

46.
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
Elizabeth McCracken

47.
When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
Ann Patchett

48.
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

49.
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
Garth Greenwell

50.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
Frederick Busch