“Sunt două moduri de a ajunge la mine, prin săruturi sau prin imaginație.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing… — Meghan Wier Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E. L. Doctorow 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
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre… — Lee Gutkind 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
“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period;… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or… — Errol Morris 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
“It’s a powerful experience, shitting. There’s something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as… — John D'Agata 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
“I am a former paramedic of Detroit EMS. While working the road, I encountered many hidden gems in Detroit that I went… — Leslie Cieplechowicz Copy Share Image
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book,… — Drew Gilpin Faust 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
“He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
“We go around the room, introducing ourselves. 'I'm Hamza, I'm a friend of John's, I suppose,' he says a little reluctantly. Hamza… — John Safran 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
