#nonfiction

We ate, if we were fortunate, a spoonful of food each day. We drank as much water as we could keep in our cupped hands. The dying began on the fifth day. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#food

Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends ↗

— Luis J. Rodríguez

#race #friendship

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#book #every #every time #get #i

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty. ↗

— Max Lucado

#max-lucado #nonfiction #christian-living

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

#daily #day #different #down #dread

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#fiction writer #i #i think #nonfiction #novel

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#believe #century #come #half #i

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#break #down #else #i #mostly

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