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• What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

  Tracy Kidder

  Creativity, Creative, Fiction

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• The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

  Tom Wolfe

  Writing, Fiction, Problem

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• One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Writing, Trying, Fiction

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

  Peter Benchley

  Thinking, Fiction, Influence

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• I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

  Corey Taylor

  Kings, Growing Up, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who’s speaking. There’s all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.

  Ted Dekker

  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

  Kinky Friedman

  Thinking, Fiction, Lines

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• Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

  Nick Flynn

  Self, Ego, Fiction

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• (about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

  Nick Hornby

  Art, Book, Home

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• The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

  Nick Hornby

  Waiting, Lists, Fiction

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• Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

  Jennifer Weiner

  College, Hot, Fiction

  www.jenniferweiner.com. May, 2002.

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• So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Fiction, Useless

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became a screenwriter, I ended up really just doing historical drama and non-fiction based stuff, like Band of Brothers and stuff that didn't get made, but was also non-fiction.

  John Orloff

  Brother, Growing Up, Drama

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

  Farley Mowat

  Arbitrary, Fiction, Bigs

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• I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.

  A.M. Homes

  Real, Emotional, Thinking

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• In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

  Andrew Lam

  Historical, Events, Fiction

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

  Andrew Lam

  Writing, Abstract Painting, Fiction

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.

  James W. Loewen

  Book, Fiction, Pages

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again.

  Stephen Hawking

  Taken, Fiction, Stories

  "Stephen Hawking Reveals What He REALLY Thought Of Eddie Redmayne In 'The Theory Of Everything'". The Huffington Post UK Interview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. August 5, 2015.

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• My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.

  Brett Morgen

  Creating, Design, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

  Brett Morgen

  Trying, Fiction, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.

  Nicholas Delbanco

  Grief, Book, Men

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• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  Gale Anne Hurd

  Historical, Fans, Fiction

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