“Collect memories, not things. Fill-up dreams, not pockets. Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world. — David Shields Copy Share Image
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism,… — Sarah Jane Butfield Copy Share Image
“Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
“The good news is we don't have to suffer alone. We don't have to carry the burdens of our messy lives alone.… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, I love for someone to see something, and go, "Oh, wow, I've never thought of it that way."… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“We insist no one be compelled to take antipsychotic drugs until he becomes so deranged that he is in 'imminent danger' and… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
“An emotional man with bushy eyebrows tells us that if the proposed mosque is built in Bendigo 'the foundation of Australia will… — John Safran Copy Share Image
I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I am a former paramedic of Detroit EMS. While working the road, I encountered many hidden gems in Detroit that I went… — Leslie Cieplechowicz Copy Share Image
Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc.… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“As a nonfiction writer you must get on the plane. If the subject interests you, go after it, even if it's in… — Meg Lukens Noonan Copy Share Image
“People sometimes say that it is “old-fashioned” to define morality based on the Bible, but nothing is more “old- fashioned” than wanting… — Dannah K. Gresh Copy Share Image
I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“As Michel de Montaigne observed, "The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing… — Meghan Wier Copy Share Image
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
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