Top Non-Fiction Quotes
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Richard Hughes
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
Gerald Clarke
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
Tracy Kidder
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
John Sladek
Alain de Botton 
Chester Brown 
Paul Kane 
Chaim Potok 
Laurell K. Hamilton 
Richard Stallman 
Tracy Kidder All Non-Fiction Quotes
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Richard Hughes 
58% of people like this quote
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
Laurell K. Hamilton
57% of people like this quote
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
Gerald Clarke
56% of people like this quote
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
Tracy Kidder
55% of people like this quote
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
John Sladek
54% of people like this quote
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
Alain de Botton
53% of people like this quote
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Tanith Lee
53% of people like this quote
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Brad Holland
53% of people like this quote
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Peter Benchley
53% of people like this quote