In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I lay on my floor crying again¦ shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth… — Nathan Daniels Copy Share Image
“... by treating nature as exterior and inferior to humans we saw no harm to ourselves in polluting the soil, the plants,… — Betty Jean Craige Copy Share Image
“Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“River smiled sweetly at his tormentors and told them, "If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me… — Gavin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the… — Eric Scigliano Copy Share Image
That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“So many people open a Bible and they are being taught to listen for the voice of God-to try to hear what… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like… — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or… — David Shields Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“Depending on your own background and life experiences, this may or may not be new to you, but after an eight-to-twelve-hour day,… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
“If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do… — Theresa Francis-Cheung Copy Share Image
“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication.… — Niedria Kenny Copy Share Image
“A female magician named Catherine Trianon, who lived together 'as man and wife' with another cunning-woman, was described as having more learning… — Owen Davies Copy Share Image
“The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers---those things are built into the operating systems and machines.… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
“You must learn how to separate a detrimental situation from which you must burn all the bridges from when you must partake… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Trust your inner judgment. Be prepared to work for what you know is right, but avoid the insufferable tragedies of running with… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game.… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
![“I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind…” quote by Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4d9/joan-didion-497_block_i-didn-t-like-it-computer-when-i-first-b_1018860.jpg)
