I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“No, Trevor! You look at me. You acknowledge me. Show me that I exist to you, because the way you treat me… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 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
The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, I love for someone to see something, and go, "Oh, wow, I've never thought of it that way."… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With… — Chelsea Martin 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
“Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can be elegant and very beautiful but it can never be sculpture.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“ASIO turned up on Hamza's doorstep a year ago, after he and his mate, both in their mid-twenties, returned from Yemen. They… — John Safran 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
“My mom raised me as if there were no limitations on where I could go or what I could do. When I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't… — Frank Deford 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
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I’d always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Discovery still happens in the writing. You start in nonfiction with a whole lot more going for you, because all the discovery… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to ‘Truth’ but we, out of our own vested interests, wish… — Kapil Kumar Bhaskar Copy Share Image
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“An emotional man with bushy eyebrows tells us that if the proposed mosque is built in Bendigo 'the foundation of Australia will… — John Safran Copy Share Image
“We insist no one be compelled to take antipsychotic drugs until he becomes so deranged that he is in 'imminent danger' and… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
