Be good Quote by Marco Roth

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

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up…

— Margaret Atwood

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's…

— Lawrence Osborne

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

— Carlos Fuentes

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from…

— Philip Kitcher

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books…

— Don Novello

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

“Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic…

— Richard Russo

One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly…

— Lidia Yuknavitch