Nonfiction Quotes - Page 2

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

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

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

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

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful."

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

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

Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.