I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I…

If you are rude way to talk directly to anyone you can hurt the

— Mak_786

“In the dialogue people should talk directly to one another, one to one, across the circle. Then the time would come, if we got…

— David Bohm

When you have that privilege of being able to talk directly with your chairman, like I've had with Daniel Levy, that make things a…

— Hugo Lloris

There's a lot of downsides to social media, but one of the nice things is that you can cut through all the BS and…

— Andrew Stanton

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's…

— Ben Affleck

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I…

— Joan Didion

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

— Joan Didion

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke…

— Joan Didion

“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.”

— John McPhee

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and…

— Kathleen Rooney

A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

— Le Ly Hayslip

“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a…

— Ann Voskamp

“Second Splendid Truth One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to…

— Gretchen Rubin