#nonfiction

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#research #story #straightforward #task #tell

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

— Louise Brown

#book #i #nepal #nonfiction #novel

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

— Jonathan Franzen

#doing #enjoy #i #nonfiction #really

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

#incredible #more #nonfiction #over-the-top #story

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. ↗

— James Rollins

#both #fiction #i #inspiration #inspired

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. ↗

— Erica Jong

#hard #nonfiction #simultaneously

Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here that the spy thriller and the crime story and the adventure story and the supernatural tale and the science fiction, however excellently written, must reside, sent to their rooms, as it were, for the misdemeanor of being enjoyable in what is considered a meretricious way. They invent, and we all know they invent, at least up to a point, and they are, therefore, not about 'real life,' which ought to lack coincidences and weirdness and action-adventure, unless the adventure story is about war, of course, where anything goes, and they are, therefore, not solid. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#literary-snobbery #nonfiction #imagination

Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings. ↗

— Donald Van de Mark

#ethics #inspirational #inspirational-success-failure #leadership #life-purpose

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#change

A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself. ↗

— Kate Braestrup

#nonfiction #love