Quotes of: Nonfiction Keyword

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Peter Morgan

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

Katherine Boo

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

Julian Assange

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

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 to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Jamaica Kincaid

There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.

Bryan Burrough

In the sea of words, the is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction: 30th Anniversary Edition

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writ...

Roxane Gay

My work was entirely nonfiction.

Laura Hillenbrand

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

E. O. Wilson

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Ellen Pompeo

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

Dirk Benedict

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Tom Wolfe

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

Cory Monteith

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Erica Jong

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

James Sanborn

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Anne Lamott

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Andy Richter