Quotes of: Nonfiction Keyword

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Louise Brown

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

Candice Millard

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

The Bone Clocks

I read nonfiction." She reared back as if offended.

Salvation

Writers are the custodians of memory...

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Mark Twain

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Peter Matthiessen

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

Robert Gottlieb

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

James Frey

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Chris Abani

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Marya Hornbacher

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Chad Harbach

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

David Sedaris

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

Tim LaHaye

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

Laura Hillenbrand

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

E. O. Wilson

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

E. L. Doctorow

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Joan Didion

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

Jonathan Franzen

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

Rick Moody

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Jonathan Coe