Nonfiction Quotes · Page 5

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

— Tim LaHaye

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

— John McPhee

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

“They smelled death and it revolted them and shot the bile high in the throat.”

— Kevin S. Giles

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

— Peter Morgan

“Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..)”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

“If reading makes you happy, do it. Whatever makes your heart sing and brings you joy, do that too.”

— C. Toni Graham

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

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

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to…

— Uzodinma Iweala

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

— Kate Zambreno

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

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

“…and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if…

— Bruce Black

“The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is…

— Ann Voscamp

Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In…

— George Packer

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

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

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

I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is…

— Laila Lalami

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the…

— Douglas Florian

One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read…

— Robert Hass

As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not…

— David Quammen

“...arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate. p 84”

— Gretchen Rubin

“Parents should keep their kids engaged in positive activities as much as possible.”

— Malik Wade

Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.

— Katherine Dunn

“The elements of the written word can be purely magical. I read and I write...I inspire and I’m living.”

— C. Toni Graham

“In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus”

— Isaiah Hankel

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

— Anne Lamott

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

— Candice Millard

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

— Fran Lebowitz

“The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.”

— David Richo

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

— Akhil Sharma

“It’s up to us to make the choice to be grateful even when things aren’t going well.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

“The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.”

— John Cannell, MD

“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.”

— C. Toni Graham

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

— Alice Mattison