Nonfiction Quotes

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

— W. P. Kinsella

“Eu iubesc, iubesc, iubesc.”

— Anaïs Nin

“You have to get Real, to get Healed.”

— Thakore CoCo O'Neal

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

— Ann Patchett

“Do Everything You Love”

— Sarvesh Jain

My work was entirely nonfiction.

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Inception is true.”

— Maria Karvouni

“No one needed to pay me to love you.”

— Debra Borchert

“Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.”

— Lisa Eley

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

— David Sedaris

“Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.”

— Kylene Beers

“You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.”

— Will Rogers

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

— Jonathan Coe

“Heaven's no place for one who thrives on hell.”

— Carrie Fisher

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach

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

“Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.”

— Banani Ray

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

— Tom Wolfe

“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

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

— Ann Patchett

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling

“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.”

— Enock Maregesi

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

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station…

— Michael Ondaatje

I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction - a situation that…

— David Edelstein

With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth…

— Debra Dean

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was…

— Elif Batuman

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

— Leslie Fiedler

“Rarely do page-turners written for middle-school kids also ignite excitement in adults. (A notable exception is the series of Harry Potter books.)…

— Sharon Lovejoy

All I really know in nonfiction is that when I come home, I've got all these notes and I'm trying to figure…

— George Saunders

I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested…

— Simon Rich

If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you…

— Frederick Busch

“Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this…

— Rudolf Flesch

“With my popped ears, I could only hear the muffled humming of the MI-17’s powerful blades, so I focused my attention on…

— Nidhie Sharma