Best Non-Fiction Quotes

48 Non-Fiction quotes by 45 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In this strange world called Earth, I have run into dead things that seemed to be alive; and living ones that seemed to have no… — Jean-Paul Malfatti
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

Who Wrote These Non-Fiction Quotes

45 authors contributed a total of 48 Non-Fiction Quotes, led by these top contributors: