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

  Louise Brown

  Book, Diaspora, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  Laura Hillenbrand

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• I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Enjoy

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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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• 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

  Sex, Thinking, Literature

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• 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

  Reading, Writing, Science

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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

  Philosophy, Reading, Writing

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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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• I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Writing, Character

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• Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Two, Three

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• Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Book, Character

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• I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Giving, Research, Fiction And Nonfiction

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Fiction, Believable

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• Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

  Yann Martel

  Real, Emotional, Fiction

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

  Arundhati Roy

  Division, Fiction, Concerned

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• Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.

  William Zinsser

  Successful, Two, Mind

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• I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

  Garth Greenwell

  Book, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Writing, Hands, Ties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Shining, Fiction

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.282, Anchor

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

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Shapes, Narrative

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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, Fiction And Nonfiction

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

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• I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

  David Sedaris

  Book, People, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.

  Lee Gutkind

  Real, Ideas, Creative Nonfiction

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

  Dirk Benedict

  Book, Two, Fiction And Nonfiction

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