“Second Splendid Truth One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening… — Jane Taylor Starwood Copy Share Image
“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's… — Jon Scieszka 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
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Don’t ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on… — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“ASIO turned up on Hamza's doorstep a year ago, after he and his mate, both in their mid-twenties, returned from Yemen. They… — John Safran Copy Share Image
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
