“For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.” — Dwain K. White Sr Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!” — Christina Scalise Copy Share Image
“With a touch of exaggeration, we can say that in Africa—in the beginning is not the Word, but the chameleon.” — Eva Žilková Copy Share Image
I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
“So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction has crept closer to fiction in our time in ways that are not flattering to fiction, in part because too many… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can be elegant and very beautiful but it can never be sculpture.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“If we truly believe He is who He says He is, then we must acknowledge His sovereignty and know within our heart… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“They enter the dreams, they create scenes in your dream to trick the systems. The systems think your dream was reality. They… — Maria Karvouni Copy Share Image
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives.” — Thaddeus O. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends” — Luis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
