Quotes with non-fiction

Quotes 81 till 100 of 236.

  • Antonia Fraser I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Joan Didion I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • A. E. van Vogt I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Anita Diamant I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Armistead Maupin I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • J.M. Coetzee I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
    (2003)
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • James Joyce I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Peter Ackroyd I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • John McGahern I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
    (2002)
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Aldous Huxley I think that fiction. history and biography are immensely important, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Audre Lorde I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Philip Roth I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Bradley A. Smith If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bonnie McKee If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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