Nonfiction Quotes - Page 9

• Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You don't belong here. That's not how we do things." I think that's problematic.

  John D'Agata

  Thinking, World, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and still pass as something hybrid-y enough for my poetry workshops, I was looking for models, for forebears.

  John D'Agata

  Writing, School, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.

  David Quammen

  Novelists, Needs, Use

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

  Dav Pilkey

  Reading, Boards, Kind

  "Dav Pilkey on 'Dog Man,' Mind-Blowing Graphic Novels, and More". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 20, 2016.

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• Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

  Frederick Busch

  Facts, Mistreated

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

  Frederick Busch

  Reading, Writing, Want

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you memeing? If you can propose a memoir, I believe someone will pay you to write it. And you will get a contract for nonfiction. And if it is about victimology in one way or another than you'll get more money. It's a sensation.

  Frederick Busch

  Believe, Writing, Eighteen Years Old

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

  Jonathon Keats

  Art, Practice, Research

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love telling stories, I love for someone to see something, and go, "Oh, wow, I've never thought of it that way." Because I've had those moments in my life, where I go, "Oh, my God, I've never looked or approached this topic and had that insight or had that idea come to mind," to where it changes your life, it changes the way you see certain things. I love that. I think that's such a cool thing that we get to do by sharing stories, whether they're fiction or nonfiction.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Imagine, Poet, Love To Read

  Source: therumpus.net

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