For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“To merge on the road you are meant to travel, means making a choice and then taking action.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“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
“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
“Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to ‘Truth’ but we, out of our own vested interests, wish… — Kapil Kumar Bhaskar Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“...beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep. ” — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny Copy Share Image
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“But why wake up all that past? Why reopen the old wounds of those who were living in Moscow and in country… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and… — Donald Van de Mark Copy Share Image
“Most important thing in life is family, Without them you are nothing. Whatever you do will be worth nothing, If there is… — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
