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Non-Fiction Quotes

V. S. Naipaul quote: "Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction..."
Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. V. S. Naipaul
Rick Moody quote: "Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to..."
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. Rick Moody
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. Joan Didion
Tom Wolfe quote: "Nonfiction is never going to die."
Nonfiction is never going to die. Tom Wolfe
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is... Arundhati Roy
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning. Arundhati Roy
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. Chaim Potok
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work. Alain de Botton
Tracy Kidder quote: "What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge..."
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. Tracy Kidder
I read more than I had in years-novels, short stories, three long nonfiction books about how we had stumbled into the Iraq mess (the short answer appeared to have W for a middle initial and a dick for a Vice President). Stephen King
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative. E. L. Doctorow
Mark Twain quote: "The difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction..."
The difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction has to be believable. Mark Twain
This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that. Kurt Vonnegut
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. Stephen King
Alan Moore quote: "Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the..."
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. Alan Moore

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