#nonfiction

People respect nonfiction but they read novels. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#novels #people #read #respect

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#gift #i #many #nonfiction #special

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #because #become #force #had

Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a moment you might imagine you’ve been mysteriously wafted to the French countryside, but no, this is the East End of Long Island, the most exciting new wine region in North America. You’ve reached your destination, but your journey of discovery has barely begun ↗

— Jane Taylor Starwood

#long-island #nonfiction #travel #wine #food

Nonfiction is never going to die. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#going #never #nonfiction

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

— Tom Wolfe

#career #entire #entire career #fiction #i

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#limitation #nonfiction #telling #telling the truth #truth

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#biography #considered #contains #degree #fiction

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. ↗

— Erik Larson

#nonfiction #st-louis #change

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time. ↗

— Wendy Williams

#science #change