#nonfiction

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

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

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#all-time #answer #ask #book #different

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#i #nonfiction #problem #talent #well

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

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#every #every time #get #i #i write

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#being #detective #doing #enjoy #gives

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

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