Nonfiction Quotes · Page 7

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 find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

“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

“The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by…

— Wendy C. Ortiz

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel…

— Leslie Fiedler

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times…

— Judith Krantz

“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

Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences…

— Anthony Marra

With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to…

— Jenny Zhang

“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect…

— Jon Scieszka

“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

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

“I know a lot of people were praying for us to find the arsenic.”

— Jeannie Walker

“Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.”

— Ann Voskamp

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

— Andy Richter

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

— John Cannell, MD

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

— Marya Hornbacher

“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

“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

— David Shields

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

— Jessa Crispin

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in…

— Stephen King

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish…

— Douglas Preston

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

— Ishmael Beah