Desire Quote by Amitava Kumar

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

— Francois Truffaut

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I…

— Iris Chang

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

— Sefi Atta

I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion…

— Paul Auster

My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They…

— Werner Herzog

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,…

— Trudi Canavan

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

— Jenny Han

“Only God writes great non-fiction.”

— E.C. Lartigue

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them…

— James W. Loewen

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you…

— Bryan Cranston

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

— Arundhati Roy