Best Nonfiction Words
116 Nonfiction quotes by 96 unique authors
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One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
— Robert Gottlieb
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
— Candice Millard
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Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple…
— Tina Brown
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I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart…
— Scott Turow
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For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur…
— John Van Hamersveld
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I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
— Peter Matthiessen
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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
— Chad Harbach
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere,…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
— Marilynne Robinson
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My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading…
— Jon Scieszka
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction,…
— Oscar Hijuelos
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There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very…
— A. Scott Berg
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We as one people need to find our inner self before chasing the Nonfiction of vain things and people in life
— Brane Smallwood
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My hands might be hard my feet might be tought my skin ain't no city boys city's skin For I'm a hard worker My brain…
— Michael Country
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I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
— Tim LaHaye
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
— Rick Moody
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96 authors contributed a total of 116 Nonfiction Quotes, led by these top contributors: