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Tag Name "Nonfiction" (137)

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One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books ... If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about.
Thomas Cahill
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Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
James Frey
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Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.
Ben Mezrich
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
Joan Didion
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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
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I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The ongoing paradox is that sometimes it's harder to get to the emotional truth of something when you only have the facts at your disposal.
Ron Currie Jr.
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Anne Lamott
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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
Mark Twain
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My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
Dav Pilkey
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
Ann Patchett
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson
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The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
Fran Lebowitz
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In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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I think the term artist's novel for me has referred to writing which supports an art practice or a more specifically a particular artwork or project. The nonfiction novellas and nonfiction novel I have written play a role in my artwork as objects - which I will return to, but I write the books to exist autonomously.
Jill Magid
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
Dan Brown
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I'd like to imagine that dreamoir becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.
Wendy C. Ortiz
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You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.
William T. Vollmann
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One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
William Zinsser
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Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.
Lynne Tillman
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This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a certain sector of society, unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Nonfiction is never going to die.
Tom Wolfe
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