Nonfiction Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Nonfiction

Nonfiction Quotes & Sayings

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Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other. — Mark Lynas

For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew?

(from The Church is One) — Aleksey Khomiakov

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth. — Michael M. Thomas

In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel compelled to belong, — J.P. Robinson

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani

In all of time, all of space, there will only be one you. How can you be anything but perfect? As you are. Mad, sad, glad. You are amazing. — Cindy Marcus

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. — E. O. Wilson

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser

I read nonfiction.
She reared back as if offended. — Anne Osterlund

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

Money has the power to get, all that you want.
Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want. — Akash Lakhotia

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. — Ishmael Beah

When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice. — Cheryl Strayed

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? — Dave Eggers

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace. — Ann Voskamp

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain. — Ellen Pompeo

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Grace isn't meant to be fair, grace is meant to be good — James Prescott

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift. — Tim LaHaye

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

One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does. — Matthew Pearl

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. — Rick Moody

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting. — Kathryn Harrison

Steel identifies what he calls two faulty believes: first, that life should be easy, and second, that our self-worth is dependent on our success. — Daniel J. Levitin

You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity — Ikechukwu Joseph

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

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For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build. — Andrew Griffin

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling. — Ishmael Beah

....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do. — Bruce Black

Nonfiction. I didn't choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing. — Chila Woychik

It is not the business of a Queen to be human. — Antal Szerb

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

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. — Louise Brown

Marie keeps asking for books about zombies and I keep telling her I can't read nonfiction for story time, but . . — Isaac Marion

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction. — John Gimlette

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron

(And also like Satan, I'm a beautiful loser.) — Benjamin Hale

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler

Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication. — Ken Andersen

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon

the top 10% of people who buy a nonfiction book. — Anthony Robbins

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work. — Lucy Walker

Disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed. — Nick Flynn

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring. — Beverly K. Bachel

Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..) — Ikechukwu Joseph

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. — Marilynne Robinson

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. — Barbara Kingsolver

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects. — Will Rogers

Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. 'It's about to get all nonfiction in here'. — Shannon Hale

As the baby grows bigger, she [wet nurse] will chew his meat for him. — Joseph Gies

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. — Loung Ung

In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty. — Glenn Greenwald

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. — Ann Voskamp

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. — Kathleen Rooney

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes. — Tom Bissell

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. — Chad Harbach

It ain't so easy writing about nothin — Patti Smith

You truly do have the power to reach your goals. — Beverly K. Bachel

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. — David Sedaris

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. — Rich Cohen

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say. — Dirk Benedict

What you believe can change your experience. — Staness Jonekos

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. — Laura Hillenbrand

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. — Erik Larson

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge. — Simon Armitage

Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself. — Debbie Tosun Kilday

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. — Todd Strasser

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. — Peter Matthiessen

What we say to each other-even when it's anonymous, even when we think no one is paying attention, even when it's online-matters. Words have meaning. — Justine Ezarik

You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity. — T.A. Sorensen

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else. — Billy Collins

When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you. — Sandra S. Simmons

The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you'll feel. — Beverly K. Bachel

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. — Erica Jong

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe

There is no such thing as nonfiction. — Tom Waits

Twins need to know that they can be alone without their twin. — Joan A. Friedman

You're unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step. — Beverly K. Bachel

Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. — Dave Eggers

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

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

- a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom. — Trevor Noah

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

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them. — John Hubner

When all is said and done, one of our rewards may be praise, but the greater reward is being faithful to follow our Lor and Savior, Jesus Christ. — Elizabeth George

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy! — Barbara Conelli

In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither. — David Mitchell

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

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein. — John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

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

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity. — Arnold Henry

Hauntingly active as they share space with the living, the dead refuse to give up their undead residency. — Pamela K. Kinney

The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature. — John Cannell

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl. — Nnedi Okorafor

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

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. — Mark Twain