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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 — Kinky Friedman

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. — Stephanie M. Sellers

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. — Michael J. Findley

Loose lips sink ships. — Erwin Rommel

Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately. — Meghan Daum

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself. — Jonathan Safran Foer

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always. — Sara Sheridan

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it. — Jon McGregor

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. — W.P. Kinsella

Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) — Deborah L. McCarragher

Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing. — A.D. Posey

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. — Tracy Kidder

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. — Catherine Jinks

In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine. — Richie Gerber

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. — Henry Rollins

I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really. — Patti Larsen

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know. — Steve Earle

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more. — Madhur Bhandarkar

Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk,
when you could not even walk. — Akash Lakhotia

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian McEwan

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books. — Gillian Cross

Well now," the dragon says to her in a voice like rolling thunder, "who are you really here to save? — Patti Larsen

It's not only how much money you make. It's what you do with it that determines your financial condition. — Sandra S. Simmons

I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money. — Robert M. Edsel

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

We all know the secret of dieting ... it's the application that's challenging.
p 7 — Gretchen Rubin

I wasn't trained to write non-fiction. — Leila Aboulela

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. — V.S. Naipaul

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords. (p. 28) — Eckhart Tolle

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie. — Jeannie Walker

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes

Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder — Helene Munson

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. — Alison Weir

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. — James P. Carse

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. — Jorge Luis Borges

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth. — Debra Moffitt

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable. — Debra Moffitt

Reading a non-fiction book is like a religious experience. — Rachel Perry

How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you? — Stephenie Meyer

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever. — Tyler Hilton

If you are never open to change things will remain the same, thereby driving you insane. — Clarine Williams

The soul wants what it wants and the heart just has to live with it. — Angel M.B. Chadwick

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers. — Evan Osnos

I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation. — Debra Moffitt

Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies. — Deana J. Driver

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot. — Richard Hell

When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They're like turquoise gum drops. — Jo Treggiari

In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful. — Ann Leckie

Borrow money only for an education that will yield enough of a return in the job market to allow you to pay your loans back. — Kevin Carey

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive. — Raymond Buckland

Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding. — Meghan Lamb

I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe ... — M.F.K. Fisher

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction. — Gerald Clarke

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor — Deana J. Driver

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. — Jon Weisman

I discovered something attractive about uncertainty. It was the knowledge that God was in control and that I was depending on him every moment. — Yilda B. Rivera

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction? — Darin Strauss

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America. — Morgan Spurlock

Thank God! Those prayers were answered! — Jeannie Walker

There's no such thing as fiction or imagination, as they're merely non-fiction manifestations in the wrong parallel universe. — Daniel Marques

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me! - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman — Deana J. Driver

For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn't interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does. — Ayn Rand

I tend to read non-fiction. — Gary Oldman

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It was a time of beautiful brutal illusions. — Mick Karabegovic

Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. — Tommy Wallach

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions ... — Farley Mowat

I will take a serious approach to a subject usually treated lightly, which is a nerdy thing to do. — Benjamin Nugent

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. — Reid Scott

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is. — Jason Jennings

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. — Yann Martel

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan. — Gale Anne Hurd

Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. — Justin Alcala

What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person. — Donna Brown

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. — Sara Sheridan

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

It is wonderful have a relationship with the right man. — Evelyn Leite

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read. — Jim Shepard

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say. — C.L. Gammon

Gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

You Never Have a Second Chance for a First Good Impression — Doris-Maria Heilmann

A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed. — Lizelle DuPlessis

They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense — Truman Capote

Writing is a psychological process. It is the process of taking what is in your mind and sharing it with others. — Gudjon Bergmann

Memory holds you back, Imagination pushes you forward. — Keerthi Singhe

spending life is easier than living life. — Ruchika Rastogi

I am in control of my own well-being — Shelley Wilson

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner

Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor! — Christina Scalise

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither. — David Mitchell

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. — Gerald Clarke

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The knowledge of the soul is knowledge of the universe — Alexis Karpouzos

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill — Ron Mayes

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding. — Jon Weisman

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do. — Jonathan Safran Foer