Nonfiction Quotes · Page 3

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

— Eileen Pollack

“Listen up, because living off-planet might lie ahead.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

— Phyllis Rose

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

— Joan Didion

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

— Ann-Marie Campbell

“As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him.”

— Joseph Gies

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

“Twins need to know that they can be alone without their twin.”

— Joan A. Friedman Ph D

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a…

— David Lammy

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

— Lorin Stein

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

— Chris Abani

“In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel…

— J.P. Robinson

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so…

— Dave Eggers

“I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had…

— Robert Edsel

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Joan Didion

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its…

— Luc Sante

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

I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite…

— Geraldine Brooks

“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

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

— Meghan Wier

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

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

— Larry Kirshbaum

Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can…

— Chris Abani

“I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I’ve never understood how being loved fully could…

— Taylor Rhodes

“On previous trips the pirates have stolen valuables, killed people, raped and abducted girls...the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by…

— Loung Ung

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

— Michiko Kakutani

Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“The corpses were hauled away on sledges or on carts, depending on the time of the year. Sometimes, for convenience, they used…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it”

— Isaiah Hankel

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

— Bernard Branson

“What you believe can change your experience.”

— Staness Jonekos

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

— E. O. Wilson

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

— Anne Lamott

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

— Gretchen Rubin

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

— Jon Ronson

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

— Ellen Pompeo