Non Fiction Quotes

70 quotes by 65 authors

• The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
• It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one… — Nicholson Baker
• I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the… — Alain de Botton
• When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose.… — Geraldine Brooks
• In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not… — Meg Cabot
• In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose… — Unknown Author
• What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative — Tracy Kidder
• I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley
• 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 write… — Iris Chang
• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan, — Gale Anne Hurd
• Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories… — Nicholas Delbanco
• I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer… — A.M. Homes
• The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just… — Seth Godin
• A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always. — Sara Sheridan
• I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take… — Carrie Brownstein
• See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic… — John Thomas Sladek
• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. — W. P. Kinsella
• I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My… — Richard Lewis
• I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job… — China Mieville
• I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing… — Chester Brown

Who Wrote These Non Fiction Quotes

65 authors contributed a total of 70 Non Fiction Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Non Fiction Quotes by Gerald Clarke
• 2 Non Fiction Quotes by Gillian Cross
• 2 Non Fiction Quotes by Nick Hornby
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Sara Sheridan
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Ted Dekker
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Carrie Brownstein
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Scarlett Thomas
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by John Thomas Sladek
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Tom Wolfe
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by W. P. Kinsella
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Neil Gaiman
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Richard Lewis
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Alan Moore
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by China Mieville
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Arundhati Roy
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Chester Brown
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Janine di Giovanni
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Penelope Lively
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Melissa Peterman
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by John Burnham Schwartz
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Madhur Bhandarkar
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Farley Mowat
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Corey Taylor
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by William Gibson
• 1 Non Fiction Quote by Sloane Crosley