Creative Nonfiction Quotes

• 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, Years

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• To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Art, Mean, Soul

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• Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

  Lee Gutkind

  Ideas, Interesting, Information

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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, Interesting

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• Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it can be misguided advice. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose

  Laurie Alberts

  Writing, Cutting, Two

  Laurie Alberts (2010). “Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing”, p.1, Writer's Digest Books

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• When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?

  Marya Hornbacher

  Teaching, Writing, People

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• I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.

  John Gimlette

  Strong, Writing, Feel Better

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful."

  Lee Gutkind

  Blogging, Awareness, Genre

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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