Nonfiction Quotes
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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.
Irvine Welsh
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there`s only narrative.
E.L. Doctorow
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people are really smart and engaged. There`s no better place in the country to write serious nonfiction. There`s no better place to be public intellectuals.
Ayman Abdel Nour
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One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don`t get through these books, ... If people don`t finish your book, then they don`t know what you`re talking about.
Barbara Pratt
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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
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That`s material that I really like.
Rick Moody
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
Laura Hillenbrand
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My father, Raymond F. Yates, was a successful writer of technical nonfiction and such a life seemed a reasonable alternative to real work.
Brock Yates
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I`ve written many nonfiction books, but that`s a special gift.
Andrew Fanara
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I`m working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
Alta Charo
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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.
Allynne Jones
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I`m writing I don`t like to read other fiction.
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.
Alaina Walker
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I have written two nonfiction books, I`m embarrassed to say.
Dirk Benedict
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
Joseph Wambaugh
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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
Joseph Wambaugh
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that`s my problem.
Jonathan Coe
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