Nonfiction Quotes · Page 5

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

— James Frey

Friends are like books, some are Fiction and some are Nonfiction.

— Anonymous

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

— Fran Lebowitz

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

— Cory Monteith

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

— Dirk Benedict

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

— Tim LaHaye

“opprobrious term, employed to impose contempt upon”

— Jabari Asim

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

— Michael Moore

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

— William Styron

“Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists. ”

— Joseph Gies

“When all is said and done, one of our rewards may be praise, but the greater reward is being faithful to follow…

— Elizabeth George

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

— Scott McCloud

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

— Rich Cohen

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

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

— Bennett Miller

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

— Rick Moody

“As Michel de Montaigne observed, "The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations…

— Gretchen Rubin

Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre…

— Lee Gutkind

I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is…

— Laila Lalami

“People sometimes say that it is “old-fashioned” to define morality based on the Bible, but nothing is more “old- fashioned” than wanting…

— Dannah K. Gresh

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and…

— Ayelet Waldman

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and…

— Amy Bloom

“As a nonfiction writer you must get on the plane. If the subject interests you, go after it, even if it's in…

— Meg Lukens Noonan

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again…

— Orson Scott Card

I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am…

— Jenni Olson

“from the Basement tapes Eric outdid Dylan with the apologies. To the untrained eye, he seemed sincere. The psychologists on the case…

— Dave Cullen

A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang,…

— Daniel Alarcon

“Jenny slowly awoke on the sacrificial altar to an Ethereal Light that flamed through the east wall, a radiant aura of love…

— Judy Byington

“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars…

— Ann Voskamp

One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read…

— Robert Hass

As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not…

— David Quammen

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the…

— Douglas Florian

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

“They smelled death and it revolted them and shot the bile high in the throat.”

— Kevin S. Giles

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

— E. O. Wilson

“The joy of nonfiction is searching for balance between storytelling and reporting, finding a way to be both loquacious and observant.”

— Peter Hessler

I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.

— Martha MacCallum

“Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time. Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.”

— Akash Lakhotia

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

— Virginia Woolf

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

— Rick Bass