Writing Nonfiction Quotes
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Writing Nonfiction Quotes & Sayings
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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
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
— Candice Millard
When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.
— Cheryl Strayed
Writing a nonfiction book should primarily be about establishing credibility and authority in a specific domain.
— Hassan Osman
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
— Jo Deurbrouck
I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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
Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.
— A.D. Posey
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
— Leonard Mlodinow
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
— Joan Didion
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
— Irvine Welsh
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's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.
— Ishmael Beah
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
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
....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
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.
— Lorin Stein
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
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
— Patti Smith