Quotes of: Nonfiction Keyword

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Peter Matthiessen

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Rick Bass

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

Rich Cohen

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Leonard Mlodinow

I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.

Joshua Roman

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

Joseph Wambaugh

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

William Zinsser

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 fiction and nonfiction.

Nawal El Saadawi

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

Joseph Wambaugh

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

Lisa Scottoline

A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.

Larry Kirshbaum

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

Lucy Walker

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Chuck Palahniuk

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

Barbara Kingsolver

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Jo Deurbrouck

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

Scott McCloud

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

Ellen Hopkins