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70 Non Fiction quotes by 65 unique authors

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. — Alan Moore
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 wrenched… — Arundhati Roy
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a… — Janine di Giovanni
I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how… — Melissa Peterman
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more. — Madhur Bhandarkar
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes… — Corey Taylor
Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books. — Gillian Cross
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives. — Gillian Cross
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I… — Anthony Holden
His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction. — Gerald Clarke
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine… — Jon McGregor
In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion,… — Jonathan Coleman
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. — Gerald Clarke
Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. — Gerald Clarke
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. — Brad Holland
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? — Tanith Lee
Obviously there have been some very poor uses of evolution in the 20th century. Social Darwinism for instance and we point out in the book… — Greg Graffin

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