#nonfiction

But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had six--and talked about escalators, indoor plumbing, and the various laws of the land, he did not warn us that I would be told by American teenagers that I should go back to Africa. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#men

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#music #nonfiction #politics #music

The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature. ↗

— John Cannell

#health-and-fitness #medicine #nonfiction #nature

We insist no one be compelled to take antipsychotic drugs until he becomes so deranged that he is in 'imminent danger' and a judge has to intervene to save his life. If we really believed that forced treatment was an injustice and forced medication was cruel, then why would we allow a judge to impose it as a last resort to save a life? ↗

— Pete Earley

#nonfiction #life

What you believe can change your experience. ↗

— Staness Jonekos

#nonfiction #women-s-health #beauty

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #characters #column #core #find

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

#book #chapter #characters #get #going

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

— Dirk Benedict

#embarrassed #i #nonfiction #say #two

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator. ↗

— Dwain K. White Sr.

#inspirational #love #nonfiction #romance #dreams

People respect nonfiction but they read novels. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#novels #people #read #respect