“Today is the day you choose to find joy, fulfillment and the path that will make your heart sing. It's your choice,… — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college,… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“When King John was angry, he threw himself down and rolled the floor, yelling and chewing the expensive oriental rugs that Crusaders… — James Daugherty Copy Share Image
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson 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
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
Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
“But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not… — Geoff Dyer 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
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing… — Deborah Blum Copy Share Image
“Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.” — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.” — Jo Deurbrouck Copy Share Image
“God feels loved when: I pray I read my Bible I ask Him before I do something I say good things about… — Sunshine Rodgers 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. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“They enter the dreams, they create scenes in your dream to trick the systems. The systems think your dream was reality. They… — Maria Karvouni Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story… — Mark Langan Copy Share Image
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things… — A. Scott Berg 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
“This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends” — Luis Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“In the same way that our actions can be worth more than a thousand words, the words ‘I’m sorry . . .’… — Yilda Rivera 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
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives.” — Thaddeus O. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction. I have kind of had to explain or… — Rachel Dolezal 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
“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Collect memories, not things. Fill-up dreams, not pockets. Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
