Non-Fiction Quotes (page 2)

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• direction
• directed
• nonfiction

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. Joan Didion

• book
• writing
• imagination

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it. Jon McGregor

• business
• busy
• question

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. Richard Hughes

• thinking
• could
• much

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. Scott McCloud

• country
• work
• learning

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

• writing
• pleasant
• some

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. Bruce Sterling

• telling the truth
• limitation
• limits

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. Peter Matthiessen

• distinguishes
• usefulness
• superior

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

• people
• wellness
• intellectual

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. Brad Holland

• people
• career
• entire

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. Tom Wolfe

• believe
• literature
• importance

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. Tom Wolfe

• work
• entirely
• nonfiction

My work was entirely nonfiction. Laura Hillenbrand

• doings
• tell
• stories

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. Laura Hillenbrand

• respect
• reading
• people

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

• thinking
• writing
• difficult

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