“If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality. — David Shields Copy Share Image
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
“There’s a reason people isolate themselves when they’re suffering. It can be painful to talk about it, painful to hear the concern… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
“El Shaddai. My all-sufficient God who is able to handle all my needs. Everything I will ever need I can find in… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration,… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
“We go around the room, introducing ourselves. 'I'm Hamza, I'm a friend of John's, I suppose,' he says a little reluctantly. Hamza… — John Safran Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Family is an important part of a person's life. The family is the first start of life's motivations and the things with-in… — Patricia A.E. Hampton Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening… — Jane Taylor Starwood Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“It’s a powerful experience, shitting. There’s something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Sunt două moduri de a ajunge la mine, prin săruturi sau prin imaginație.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
