Nonfiction Quotes

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher. (A. Scott Berg)
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that. View quote
Ben Mezrich
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say. View quote
Dirk Benedict
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. View quote
Tom Wolfe
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. View quote
Stephen King
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick. View quote
Stewart O'Nan
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. View quote
Ben Mezrich
My work was entirely nonfiction. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. (Scott McCloud)
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear. View quote
Ellen Hopkins
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. View quote
Fred Savage
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. View quote
Jerry B. Jenkins
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. View quote
Joseph Wambaugh
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. View quote
Joseph Wambaugh
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. View quote
Louise Brown
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. View quote
Peter Morgan
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. View quote
Rick Bass
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. (Chris Abani)
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction. View quote
James Frey
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. View quote
Yann Martel
We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. View quote
Michael Moore
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. View quote
Irvine Welsh