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Non Fiction Writing Quotes & Sayings

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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? — Tanith Lee

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. — Jonathan Franzen

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. — Susan Orlean

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

Truth is always duller than fiction. — Piers Paul Read

Write it down and it will come alive. — Efrat Israeli

The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it. — C. Kennedy

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

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

Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing — Ray Hartley

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths. — Wally Lamb

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

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction. — Sefi Atta

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world. — Marty Rubin

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

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love. — Stephanie Roberts

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written. — Piroska Rodriguez

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. — John Gardner

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! — Henry James

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

It's not that I'm apolitical ... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add. — Susan Isaacs

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

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider. — Christopher Rice

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. — Joss Whedon

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat

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

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

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

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

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress

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

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

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

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

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

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time. — Romesh Gunesekera

Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic. — A.D. Posey

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it. — Walter Dean Myers

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

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

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child. — Ashwin Sanghi

Writing to her from America, her best friend remarked, 'I've stopped reading fiction, I just read about you. — Catherine Bailey

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty. — Stephen King

Ultimately, nobody is predictable, least of all to himself ... there wouldn't be any point in writing fiction otherwise. — Jincy Willett

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

People believe in everything except the reality. — Min Kim

Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder. — Peggy Ullman Bell

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough. — Aaron Belz

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews

I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results. — Kia Carrington-Russell

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths. — Wally Lamb

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable. — Adam Langer

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich

We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves. — Clive Barker

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ... — William Petersen

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing. — Kanza Javed

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. — Alexander McCall Smith

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

Your afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if the find out you have one
- Natalie Savage Carlson " The Family Under The Bridge — Natalie Savage Carlson

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end. — Brett Armstrong

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. — Siri Hustvedt

I long for the day I no longer long for him. — Franki Fiori