Nonfiction Quote by Joseph Gies

“Second Splendid Truth One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to…

— Gretchen Rubin

“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a…

— Ann Voskamp

A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

— Le Ly Hayslip

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and…

— Kathleen Rooney

“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.”

— John McPhee

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“I’ve never been with a boy who hasn’t seen me naked. It’s always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep. Don’t chalk it up to…

— Taylor Rhodes

“Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera,…

— Jane Taylor Starwood

“opprobrious term, employed to impose contempt upon”

— Jabari Asim

“Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me…

— David Quammen

I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call…

— Jon Scieszka