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This collection holds 273 nonfiction quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Laura Hillenbrand, Tom Wolfe and Ann Patchett.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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My work was entirely nonfiction.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.

I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

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

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

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

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

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.

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

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

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

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