Akhil Sharma
Author
"For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true."
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Nonfiction
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Geoff Dyer
Author
"What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not defined by its content, by its "about"-ness. Where you read it irrespective of whether you're interested in the subject."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days."
Fran Lebowitz
Author, Essayist
"I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up."
Tom Wolfe
Journalist, Novelist
"Nonfiction is never going to die."
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"Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure."
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"Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them."
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"I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction."
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"The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics."
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"I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction."
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"Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces."
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"Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you."
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