112 Nonfiction Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Work Love Hope Myself Better Films Well Make Making Nonfiction Fiction Keep Challenging

I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated. Mark Kurlansky

Love People World Dreamers Face Tough Caribbean Considerable Thousand Admiration About Both Never Part Written Nonfiction Fiction Romantic Centered Who Cynics Deep Amount Defeated Defeats

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss. Mary Pilon

History Book Confused Sometimes Abyss Research Live Books Geeky Bottom Footprint Joyful Particularly Nonfiction Text End History Books Offer Author Often Tiny Forgotten Size Page Fascinating Even Lump

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters. Marya Hornbacher

You Characters Deal Nonfiction Human

I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq. Matt Gallagher

Thought Down Kind Memoir Someday About Write Writer Never Like Nonfiction Line Years Iraq Fiction Wanted Fiction Writer

The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11. Matt Gallagher

On 'Catfish,' I'm a co-host and onscreen cameraman, maybe the second onscreen cameraman after Wes Bentley's turn in 'American Beauty,' which is funny and ironic. But before that, I'd been doing a lot of creative nonfiction. Max Joseph

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I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do. Meghan Daum

Me Writing Took Supposed Because Around Nonfiction Occur Doing Off Short Fiction Stories Short Stories Realized Then Workshop Thing Started

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer. Mike Cernovich

Myself Consider Writer Nonfiction Foremost

When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece. Oscar Hijuelos

It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's 'The Birth of the Pill,' I have no other recourse, since his narrative is full of larger-than-life characters sharply limned and embarked on fascinating doings, their story told in sprightly visual fashion. Paul Di Filippo

Fashion Book Other Birth Embarked Characters Visual Case Recourse Remark Jonathan Since Sharply Like Cliche Narrative Reads Nonfiction Pill His Just Story Full Certainly Fascinating Novel

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

Inferiority Distinguish Superiority Between Terms Nonfiction Fiction Used

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. Peter Morgan

Work Reading Pleasure Feel Feels Like Nonfiction Fiction Whereas Movies

With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened. Phil Klay

You Stress Focus Skin Restricted Something Bothers Take Put Clear Underneath Nonfiction Get Want Fiction Happened Much Really

I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the city, starting work at a nonfiction imprint at a reputable publishing house, and excited about being on track to becoming the writer I had always wanted to be. Rebecca Serle

Work Me First Before City About Writer Had Excited Attending New Like House Track Always Becoming Nonfiction Up Imprint York Moved New York Being Wanted Reputable Many Grown Grown-Up Publishing Publishing House Starting Program

In my experience, copy editors, like the stalwart staff I've worked with and learned from in my 34 years at 'TIME,' are linguistic conservatives - the keepers of the flame ignited by the Strunk-White 'Elements of Style,' published in full in 1957 and chosen by 'TIME' as one of the 100 most influential nonfiction books of the past century. Richard Corliss

Time Experience Style Past Flame Conservatives Books Like Most Learned Nonfiction Editors Years Linguistic Staff Influential Century Worked Full Chosen Elements Published Keepers Copy

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. Rick Bass

Me Result More Nonfiction Than Fiction Succeeds Gratifying Harder

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. Robert Gottlieb

Great Those Memoir Nonfiction Who Served

I love nonfiction the most. It's hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that's why I'm not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They're hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he's terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way. Robert Kurson

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. Sandra Cisneros

Memoir Protagonists Read Sci-Fi Female Always Nonfiction Historical Chick Westerns Lit Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Dystopian Prefer Fantasy Even

The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time. Ta-Nehisi Coates

Time Our Way Our Time Latter Writer Come Most Greatest Proud Nonfiction American Being Fiction Fiction Writer Former Her Two

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