Best Non Fiction Quotes
70 Non Fiction quotes by 65 unique authors
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't…
— Steve Earle
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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before…
— Paul Kane
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
— Yann Martel
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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
— Ian Mcewan
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My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at…
— Rachel Nichols
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I tend to read non-fiction.
— Gary Oldman
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I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
— Susan Orlean
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The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart'…
— James Patterson
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A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of…
— Chaim Potok
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I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I…
— Nile Rodgers
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Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts;…
— Jon Scieszka
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The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was…
— Richard Stallman
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I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I…
— Daniel Tammet
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Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent,…
— Meredith Vieira
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I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair,…
— Steven Wright
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The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know…
— Nick Hornby
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Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
— Jennifer Weiner
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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes,…
— Nick Hornby
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There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which…
— Nick Flynn
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There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979
— Kinky Friedman
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There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have…
— Ted Dekker
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One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone…
— Scarlett Thomas
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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
— Tom Wolfe
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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded…
— Neil Gaiman
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