Nonfiction Quotes

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

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.

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

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

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

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

The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

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

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

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

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

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

Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it can be misguided advice. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose

What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not defined by its content, by its "about"-ness. Where you read it irrespective of whether you're interested in the subject.

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

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

My work was entirely nonfiction.

I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is going on with the president [Donald trump] and the parallels with [Richard] Nixon's presidency, I needed to know more about the man.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.