The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that,… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
“Christmastime was coming. I didn’t even know what that was. I was six years old, and had never had a Christmas.” — Russell Vann Copy Share Image
I'm very fickle when it comes to genre. I read YA, non-fiction, mysteries, romance. I'll read anything that comes with a strong… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible.… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the… — Denise Moreland Copy Share Image
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived,… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
How you solve your problems are quite different. In non-fiction, you can always go back to the research, whereas in fiction, you… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever. — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
“The reoccurring thoughts of leaving are the signs that will let you know it is time to quit and find prosperity somewhere… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
“If you can plan ahead into the future, you will also be able to detach yourself from minor difficulties today.” — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
“Investing in yourself is the best investment you will never make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the… — Hyacil Han Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“I'm never going to give in. I'm never going to give up, and I will fight back with every breath I have."… — Deana J. Driver Copy Share Image
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“You must learn how to separate a detrimental situation from which you must burn all the bridges from when you must partake… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
![“I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind…” quote by Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d9/joan-didion-497_block_i-didn-t-like-it-computer-when-i-first-b_1018860.jpg)
