“You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity” — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“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
I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer 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
Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not… — David Quammen 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
“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
“Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.” — Banani Ray Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion 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
“This young man did not date anyone but his wife, claiming it works much better when God's in charge.” — Sunshine Rodgers 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
“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning. — John McPhee 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
“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
