In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno 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
“…and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if… — Bruce Black Copy Share Image
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you.… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
“Though I have started emailing with one of my fellow readers whenever there's something important to say about Modern Family or Friday… — Rachel Bertsche 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 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
Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Who trusts the Bridge Builder when you wake to snow on your blankets and winter blasting through cracked walls and dinner for… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that… — Donald Van de Mark Copy Share Image
I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing;… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The corpses were hauled away on sledges or on carts, depending on the time of the year. Sometimes, for convenience, they used… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 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
“An emotional man with bushy eyebrows tells us that if the proposed mosque is built in Bendigo 'the foundation of Australia will… — John Safran Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can be elegant and very beautiful but it can never be sculpture.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, 'whenever man is made the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
