I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction. I have kind of had to explain or… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,'… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“In the same way that our actions can be worth more than a thousand words, the words ‘I’m sorry . . .’… — Yilda Rivera Copy Share Image
“At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often, a bar cursed because of a girl… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
“Identify your Radar – it’s your brain functioning optimally; not a vague intuition or cosmic sixth sense. Train your Radar in key… — C.B. Brooks Copy Share Image
“If you try to imagine as nearly as you can what an amount of misery, pain, and suffering of every kind the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“- Why should we be feminists? Why not egalitarians? - "Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the… — Robert Drew Copy Share Image
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story… — Mark Langan Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons,… — Deborah Davis Copy Share Image
“Now, granted, Howard doesn't fit the conventional psychological profile of a rebounder - that of the no-nonsense, utilitarian "dirty work" specialist. Rather,… — Chris Ballard Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
“Pastor Daniel, meanwhile, is sipping water on the balcony of a former sailing clubhouse, I ask if he can show me which… — John Safran Copy Share Image
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