Nonfiction Quotes
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
Joseph Wambaugh
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
Laura Hillenbrand
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Orson Scott Card
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
Tom Wolfe
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
James Rollins
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
William Least Heat-Moon
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
Rick Moody
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
Mitch Albom
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen
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
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
Tom Wolfe
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
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
Joan Didion
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
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
Joyce Carol Oates