Top Nonfiction Quotes

  • Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing. – Chila Woychik

    Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.– Chila Woychik

  • Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.– Chila Woychik

  • Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. – Alan Moore

    Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.– Alan Moore

  • One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. – William Zinsser

    One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.– William Zinsser

  • Writing nonfiction means I tell people’s stories for them, not because they’re special but because we all are. – Jo Deurbrouck

    Writing nonfiction means I tell people’s stories for them, not because they’re special but because we all are.– Jo Deurbrouck

  • Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. ‘It’s about to get all nonfiction in here’. – Shannon Hale

    Briar stood, pushing up her sleeves. ‘It’s about to get all nonfiction in here’.– Shannon Hale

  • Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours – Carl Henegan

    Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours– Carl Henegan

  • The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. – Mark Twain

    The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.– Mark Twain

  • Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither. – David Mitchell

    Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.– David Mitchell

  • Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing. – AD Posey

    Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing.– AD Posey