Quotes about nonfiction, page 2
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
quote by Peter Matthiessen
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
quote by Anne Lamott
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
quote by Irvine Welsh
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
quote by Bruce Sterling
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
quote by Joseph Wambaugh
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
quote by Rick Moody
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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
quote by Jerry B. Jenkins
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I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
quote by Judith Krantz
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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.
quote by Orson Scott Card
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
quote by Irvine Welsh
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