Nonfiction Quotes

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

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. - Joan Didion

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

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else. - Carl Hiaasen

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

This was more difficult, ... because with Griffith, there was a story line. This was a piece of nonfiction information that I had to weave together. - Dan Klores

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

The New York Times bestseller list only has four categories. There ought to be a fifth category for autobiography. Or perhaps we should call it handicapped nonfiction. - Tom Wolfe