Writing Nonfiction Quotes

• Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Sculpture, Research

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1". Interview with Hilton Als, www.theparisreview.org. 2006.

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• Siempre hay un cierto acto de fe que los editores han hecho con sus escritores de no ficción. Si se rompe la confianza, las cosas pueden ponerse muy embarazosas para los escritores y el editor.

  A. Scott Berg

  Editors, Broken, Leap Of Faith

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• Creo que el objetivo con cualquier escritura, pero especialmente con la no ficción narrativa, es poner el bloqueo de poner tus pensamientos en este medio antinatural de la impresión y luego tratar de llegar a través de eso y realmente transmitir lo que está pasando, lo que piensas, y hacer que la gente se ría y se reconozca mientras lo hace. Definitivamente, lo de reírse.

  Sloane Crosley

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

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• Encuentro personajes interesantes o lecciones que resuenan en la gente y a veces escribo sobre ellos en las páginas de deportes, a veces en una columna, a veces en una novela, a veces en una obra de teatro o a veces en no ficción. Pero en el fondo siempre me digo: "¿Hay una historia aquí? ¿Hay algo que la gente quiera leer?

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Writing, Character

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• I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

  Ben Mezrich

  Writing, Style, Trying

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

  Bruce Sterling

  Writing, Research, Fiction And Nonfiction

  "Dentro del complejo militar-entretenimiento". Entrevista con Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. 16 de junio de 2002.

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• I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

  William Menos Calor-Luna

  Writing, People, Liberty

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• 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, Creative Nonfiction

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

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Fiction, Literature

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• Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s

  Fred Savage

  Reading, School, Forget Everything

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

  Tom Wolfe

  Careers, People, Fiction

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• In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Writing, Clouds

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• Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

  Joan Didion

  Texture, Painting, Novel

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1". Interview with Hilton Als, www.theparisreview.org. 2006.

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

  Dirk Benedict

  Book, Two, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• Entrevistador: ¿Ha pensado alguna vez en escribir no ficción? Mary Doria Russell: ¡Oh, cariño, lo hice! Veamos... "Una reconsideración de las pruebas de canibalismo en el yacimiento neandertal de Krapina". Fue un gran éxito. ¿Y quién podría olvidar "Marcas de corte en el calvario Engis II"? También "El desarrollo de las cejas en función de la tensión de flexión en la región supraorbital". Recibí montones de solicitudes de reimpresión de ese artículo. Créeme, la ficción es mejor.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Estrés, Escritura, Miel

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• 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

  Writing, Different, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 23, 2011

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• I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Thinking, Technology

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• I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.

  William T. Vollmann

  Escribir, Pensar, Años

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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