Top Nonfiction Quotes
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
Laura Hillenbrand
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
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
Dirk Benedict
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Joan D. Vinge
All Nonfiction Quotes
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh 
57% of people like this quote
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
Laura Hillenbrand 
57% of people like this quote
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 
56% of people like this quote
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
Dirk Benedict 
55% of people like this quote
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
Joan D. Vinge 
53% of people like this quote
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins 
53% of people like this quote
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
Jonathan Franzen 
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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.
Leslie Fiedler 
52% of people like this quote
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
Peter Matthiessen 
51% of people like this quote
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
Tim LaHaye 
51% of people like this quote

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