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Nonfiction Quotes

I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.

Moment Data Never Nonfiction Idea

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Marya Hornbacher

You Human Nonfiction Deal Characters

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

People Nonfiction Books Like About

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Same Fiction Nonfiction Read Amount

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

King Reading Up Nonfiction Books

I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.

Geraldine Brooks

Change Think Right Things Nonfiction

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Book Kind Fiction Nonfiction Like

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Writing More Fiction Nonfiction Like

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

Robert Gottlieb

Great Nonfiction Memoir Who Those

My view of the alt-right was that it was a big tent.

Myself Nonfiction Writer Consider

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

Experience World Want Nonfiction Our

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

Peter Matthiessen

Fiction Nonfiction Used Superiority

I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in the 1930s and '40s. And my twin brother, Alexi, is a writer on 'The Following.'

Family Mother Brother Mom Nonfiction

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Hard Fiction Nonfiction

I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

Happen Fiction Nonfiction Just Idea

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

Fiction Narrative Nonfiction Only

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

Ann-Marie Campbell

Week Two Finish Nonfiction Books

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

Interesting Find Turn Out Nonfiction

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Time Internet Nonfiction Exciting

Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

Me Questions Argument Nonfiction

The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.

Richard Ben Cramer

Expectations High Nonfiction Writer

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Brain Nonfiction Books Read About

We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in.

Work Art Go Talk Content Nonfiction

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

Respect People Nonfiction Read

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