A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious…

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

— Anonymous

Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.

— Evan Hunter

“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A…

— Zelda Popkin

Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books…

— Dave Eggers

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

— Anonymous

I am a notorious and constant worrier. I'm worried if I'm not worried.

— Karla Crome

“Budget airlines are notorious for over selling their flights and bumping passengers when too many show up!”

— Steven Magee

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

— Prince Philip

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be…

— Molly Ivins

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the…

— Anonymous

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

— Tyler Cowen