Honest Quote by George Saunders Download Open image “With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.” — George Saunders ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Honest Nonfiction Preconceptions Truth Trying
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well, every Friday, to reward self for good week, I stop at store near home, treat self to Butterfinger, plus Scratch-Off ticket. Sometimes, if hard week, two Butterfingers. Sometimes, if very hard week, three Butterfingers. But, if… — George Saunders Copy Share
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time,… — George Saunders Copy Share
How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions? — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody. — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
