Best Nonfiction Sayings

116 Nonfiction quotes by 96 unique authors

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating… — Hope Davis
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction. — James Frey
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994. — Jonathan Franzen
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history. — Seth Grahame-Smith
When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much… — Marya Hornbacher
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else. — Carl Hiaasen
My work was entirely nonfiction. — Laura Hillenbrand
Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five… — William Zinsser
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we… — Jonathan Gottschall
I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist. — Jim Sanborn
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work. — Lucy Walker
One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't… — Thomas Cahill
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of… — Sloane Crosley
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. — Joan Didion
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first… — Joan Didion
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all… — Joan Didion
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a… — Annie Dillard
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E L Doctorow
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of… — Dave Eggers
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. — Erica Jong
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. — Barbara Kingsolver
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction. — Anne Lamott
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. — Anne Lamott

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