112 Nonfiction Quotes for You to Enjoy

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world. David Shields

Experience World Shifting Our Unstable Nonfiction Want Evanescent

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember. Dinaw Mengestu

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

Books Say Embarrassed Written Nonfiction Two

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

Writing Difficult Think Writer Nonfiction Novel Technique

People respect nonfiction but they read novels. E. O. Wilson

Respect People Read Nonfiction Novels

I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally. Elif Batuman

Problems Hungary Sense Relationships Summer Harvard Writer Most Nonfiction Freshman Issues Did Autobiographical Experienced Fiction Whether Interested Personally Teach Exploring English Phenomena

For an interesting nonfiction read, I really enjoyed 'Quiet' by Susan Cain. I read it with my husband, who is a true introvert, whereas I am an introvert masquerading as an extrovert. Emily Giffin

Husband Extrovert Introvert True Masquerading Read Nonfiction Am Quiet Susan Whereas Interesting Really Who Enjoyed

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

Simultaneously Nonfiction Fiction Hard

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt. Erik Larson

I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors. Franklin Foer

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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s. Fred Savage

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction. Geoff Dyer

Book Kind Constructing Generic Like Nonfiction Fits Any Fiction Whether

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers. Hope Davis

Work History Learning Strange Seen Country States Cities Would Stayed About Rather Having Through Writers Instead Towns Institutions Nonfiction Discover Traditions Lot Textbook Different Fiction Fiction Writers Many Fascinating United United States

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke. Ira Glass

Me People Rare Reading Believe Dessert Pleasure Pleasures Guilty Guilty Pleasure Detective Eating Only Almost Make Call Read Nonfiction Any Want Fiction Who Puke

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. Irvine Welsh

Religion History Science Writing Reading Lately Philosophy Constantly Studies Read Nonfiction Been Cultural Lot Quite Fiction Social Loads

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show. Jamaica Kincaid

Bullying Will Made Something Absolutely Write Hostess True Talk Talk Show Always Nonfiction Up Where Apologize Show Moment

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head. James Rollins

Will Reading National Subscribe Other Pleasure Though Magazines Both Inspiration Inspired Head Most Scientific Geographic Nonfiction Wellspring Discover National Geographic Articles American What If Often Fiction While Interest Interesting Pop Actually

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist. James Sanborn

Myself Considered Always Nonfiction Artist

After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults. Jane Goldman

Success Journalist Young Books Magazines Write Adult Had Nonfiction Began Young Adults After Newspapers Novel Four Starting

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue. Jennifer Egan

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