Quotes and Sayings About Nonfiction
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But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
-- Andy Richter -
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
-- Bruce Sterling -
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.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
-- Chris Abani -
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
-- Cory Monteith -
To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.
-- David Shields -
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
-- Dirk Benedict -
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.
-- Elizabeth McCracken -
I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
-- Ellen Pompeo -
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
-- Erica Jong -
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
-- Irvine Welsh -
I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
-- Jim Sanborn -
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.
-- Jon Scieszka -
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
-- Jonathan Coe -
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
-- Joseph Wambaugh -
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
-- Louise Brown -
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.
-- Mortimer Adler -
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
-- Peter Matthiessen -
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
-- Peter Morgan -
the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.
-- Phyllis Rose -
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
-- Rick Bass -
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
-- Scott McCloud -
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 -
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
-- Tom Wolfe