Nonfiction Quotes · Page 6

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

— Tom Wolfe

“Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.”

— Banani Ray

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times…

— Judith Krantz

“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

“Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.”

— C. Toni Graham

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling

“When all is said and done, one of our rewards may be praise, but the greater reward is being faithful to follow…

— Elizabeth George

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is…

— Geraldine Brooks

“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're…

— Valerie Owens

If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them,…

— Kathleen Rooney

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of…

— John Edgar Wideman

“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge…

— David Adam

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with…

— Abraham Verghese

“Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and…

— Donald Van de Mark

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and…

— Isabel Allende

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this…

— Rudolf Flesch

“Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average…

— Austin Kleon

“With my popped ears, I could only hear the muffled humming of the MI-17’s powerful blades, so I focused my attention on…

— Nidhie Sharma

“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested…

— Simon Rich

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you…

— Frederick Busch

“Rarely do page-turners written for middle-school kids also ignite excitement in adults. (A notable exception is the series of Harry Potter books.)…

— Sharon Lovejoy

“Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists. ”

— Joseph Gies

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

— William Styron

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

— Bennett Miller

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

— Ishmael Beah

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

— Rich Cohen

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

— Scott McCloud

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so…

— Dave Eggers

“I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had…

— Robert Edsel

“In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel…

— J.P. Robinson

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

— Chris Abani

“You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

— Lorin Stein

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a…

— David Lammy

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

“Don’t ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on…

— Ikechukwu Joseph