Nonfiction Quotes · Page 6

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

— C. Toni Graham

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

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

— Ikechukwu Joseph

“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

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

— C. Toni Graham

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

— George Saunders

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

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and…

— Michelle Zauner

“It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through…

— Meghan Wier

A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to…

— Larry Kirshbaum

“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.”

— C. Toni Graham

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the…

— Dan Brown

“Dear Younger Self, It's not just you. You really are different. And there's nothing wrong with that. Yes, it is hard. No,…

— Julia Bascom

“Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies…

— Deborah Davis

One of my favorite things, as a critic, was finding books by new writers who possessed a distinctive voice and vision, an…

— Michiko Kakutani

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and…

— Isabel Allende

“Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and…

— Donald Van de Mark

The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more…

— Ted Genoways

“I’m playing catch with Nisha and Nena. They’re standing against the opposite wall shrieking with enjoyment. They’re teenagers, but they’ve never played…

— Louise Brown

“Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way,…

— D. T. Max

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least…

— John D'Agata

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,…

— Joan Didion

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

— Tim LaHaye

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Dirk Benedict

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

— John McPhee

“Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!”

— Christina Scalise

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

— Joseph Wambaugh

“With a touch of exaggeration, we can say that in Africa—in the beginning is not the Word, but the chameleon.”

— Eva Žilková

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

— Colson Whitehead

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

— Ellen Pompeo

I write funny nonfiction adventure books about crazy, serious worlds.

— Jon Ronson

“For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.”

— Dwain K. White Sr

“Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.”

— C. Toni Graham

“It turns out that stating a problem clearly often suggests its solution. p 32”

— Gretchen Rubin

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

— Laura Hillenbrand

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

— Peter Matthiessen

“Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?”

— Colson Whitehead