“It turns out that stating a problem clearly often suggests its solution. p 32” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.” — John Cannell, MD Copy Share Image
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.” — Edmund Alexander Sims Copy Share Image
I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks. — Paul Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.” — Robert Edsel Copy Share Image
“Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person… — Jen Glantz Copy Share Image
“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“To merge on the road you are meant to travel, means making a choice and then taking action.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“So it turns out I wasn't the only Jew at the rally. There were two and a half more. Not protesting against… — John Safran Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I’m playing catch with Nisha and Nena. They’re standing against the opposite wall shrieking with enjoyment. They’re teenagers, but they’ve never played… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
“When it gets dark, it's only because god has tucked me in a cleft of the rock and covered me, protected, with… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
“In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them,… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
“The corpses were hauled away on sledges or on carts, depending on the time of the year. Sometimes, for convenience, they used… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“This young man did not date anyone but his wife, claiming it works much better when God's in charge.” — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success” — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
“Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies… — Deborah Davis Copy Share Image
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
