Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,'… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I'd never written nonfiction about the war on drugs, but I know a tremendous amount about it: I taught a class on… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“In the same way that our actions can be worth more than a thousand words, the words ‘I’m sorry . . .’… — Yilda Rivera Copy Share Image
“At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary… — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, 'whenever man is made the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often, a bar cursed because of a girl… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The good news is we don't have to suffer alone. We don't have to carry the burdens of our messy lives alone.… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
“If we truly believe He is who He says He is, then we must acknowledge His sovereignty and know within our heart… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Life is truly a matter of choices, reactions, and actions...each and every choice is governed by our reactions which in turn affect… — Kapil Kumar bhaskar Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it’s addictive.… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world… — Kelly Cherry Copy Share Image
“I'm sure the holy refrigerator is packed solid with cartons of Blue Bell ice cream - times a million. All those amazing… — Diane Moody 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
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes… — Edwidge Danticat 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
I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 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
“When King John was angry, he threw himself down and rolled the floor, yelling and chewing the expensive oriental rugs that Crusaders… — James Daugherty Copy Share Image
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
