Fiction And Nonfiction Quotes - Page 2

• I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

  Lucy Walker

  Challenges, Fiction, Challenging Myself

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

  Peter Morgan

  Reading, Guy, Littles

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• I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

  Anne Lamott

  Fiction, Nonfiction, Amount

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• I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, Thinking, Important

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• I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

  Hope Davis

  Cities, United States, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

  Bruce Sterling

  Writing, Research, Pleasant

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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• I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

  Dirk Benedict

  Book, Two, Embarrassed

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• I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

  David Sedaris

  Book, People, Wretched

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• It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

  Erica Jong

  Fiction, Nonfiction, Hard

  "Oprah, Kitty and Me" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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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

  Writing, Fiction, Literature

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• In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Fiction, Literature, Bosnians

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• Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

  Luc Sante

  Beautiful, Land, Nonfiction

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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.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Gun, Next Week

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• I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Diaspora, Novel

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• My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

  Tom Wolfe

  Careers, People, Fiction

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• I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Motherhood, Issues, Expectations

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

  James Rollins

  Inspiration, Reading, Inspired

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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.

  Judith Krantz

  Fun, Writing, Creative Nonfiction

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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

  Reading, School, Forget Everything

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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