Inspirational Quote by Thaddeus O. Lawrence

For me, education is very important. It opens up vistas of life and makes it easy for you to deal with it, because if…

— Poonam Dhillon

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't…

— Isabel Allende

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd…

— Cynthia Kadohata

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry…

— Akhil Sharma

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't…

— Michelle Zauner

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I didn’t wholly identify with the collective experiences of children in either place. I had one foot in each culture, but no firm footing…

— Padma Lakshmi

You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.

— Brett Morgen

“Heart is a vessel of collective experiences”

— Fahad Basheer