Nonfiction Quotes · Page 8

“Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.”

— Jabari Asim

“different genres. To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion…

— Dale Mayer

Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.

— Katherine Dunn

“...beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep. ”

— Joseph Gies

“Parents should keep their kids engaged in positive activities as much as possible.”

— Malik Wade

“If reading makes you happy, do it. Whatever makes your heart sing and brings you joy, do that too.”

— C. Toni Graham

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and…

— Julian Assange

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

— Garth Greenwell

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's…

— Fred Savage

For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we…

— John D'Agata

I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment. Also,…

— John D'Agata

“I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to…

— Tobias Wolff

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and…

— Michelle Zauner

“For you and me, just knowing His presence is all around us can help lift us from the darkest night, embrace us…

— Diane Moody

“Dear Younger Self, It's not just you. You really are different. And there's nothing wrong with that. Yes, it is hard. No,…

— Julia Bascom

I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that…

— David Edelstein

“from the Basement tapes Eric outdid Dylan with the apologies. To the untrained eye, he seemed sincere. The psychologists on the case…

— Dave Cullen

A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,…

— Daniel Alarcon

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the…

— Douglas Florian

All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to…

— Ilan Stavans

As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not…

— David Quammen

One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read…

— Robert Hass

“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing…

— Deborah Blum

“I’ve never been with a boy who hasn’t seen me naked. It’s always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep. Don’t chalk it…

— Taylor Rhodes

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

— Lee Gutkind

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

— Elizabeth Berg

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

“You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.”

— Anonymous

“Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..)”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

— Peter Morgan

“Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.”

— Jo Deurbrouck

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

— George Saunders

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Today is the day you choose to find joy, fulfillment and the path that will make your heart sing. It's your choice,…

— C. Toni Graham

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a…

— William T. Vollmann

I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.

— Geoff Dyer

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

— William Zinsser

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

— John McPhee

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction…

— Peter Morgan