I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny Copy Share Image
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to comprehend the ache in your gut when you see things going wrong and can’t figure out how to fix… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in the negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc.… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
“Narrative nonfiction is an act of conception and construction; it is formation of a personal legend from the mist of memory using… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a relatively short period;… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In… — George Packer Copy Share Image
After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
“It’s a powerful experience, shitting. There’s something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we… — Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Copy Share Image
“They enter the dreams, they create scenes in your dream to trick the systems. The systems think your dream was reality. They… — Maria Karvouni Copy Share Image
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Blessings! Count them and be thankful. Ask for an abundance of them and accept with gratitude.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.” — Dwain K. White Sr Copy Share Image
I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“With a touch of exaggeration, we can say that in Africa—in the beginning is not the Word, but the chameleon.” — Eva Žilková Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!” — Christina Scalise 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. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world. — David Shields Copy Share Image
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Collect memories, not things. Fill-up dreams, not pockets. Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be.” — Akash Lakhotia Copy Share Image
