Quotes and Sayings About Nonfiction

I don't have time to read nonfiction.
-- W. P. Kinsella

#Nonfiction

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
-- Alice Mattison

#Writing #Pieces #Nonfiction

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
-- Garth Greenwell

#Nonfiction #Hints #Boundaries

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
-- Jessa Crispin

#Literature #Nonfiction #American Literature

As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go.
-- John D'Agata

#Nonfiction #Students #Kind

For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction."
-- John D'Agata

#Order #Calling #Nonfiction

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in the standard sense of nonfiction, nor especially in the way we were thinking about nonfiction back then, in the late 90s.
-- John D'Agata

#Thinking #Way #Nonfiction

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.
-- Kate Zambreno

#Lazy #Wish #Nonfiction

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

#Criticism #Nonfiction #Mainstream

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.
-- Kathleen Rooney

#Nonfiction #Technique #Realizing

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.
-- Wendy C. Ortiz

#Nonfiction #Imagine #Poet