#nonfiction

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

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

a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that they’re not respectable. It’s worse for the victim because once a woman, or a girl—or a boy—is known as the target of a rape she becomes so despised, so shamed, so worthless that she turns into public property. No one is raped only once. ↗

— Louise Brown

#sad #dreams

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

— Laura Hillenbrand

#research #story #straightforward #task #tell

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#four #genre #i #nonfiction #novels

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#incredible #more #nonfiction #over-the-top #story

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. ↗

— David Sedaris

#books #i #like #lives #nonfiction

Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in relationships that honor all of these. Such needs are fulfilled in an atmosphere of the five A’s by which love is shown: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing. ↗

— David Richo

#inspirational #nonfiction #inspirational

Jenny slowly awoke on the sacrificial altar to an Ethereal Light that flamed through the east wall, a radiant aura of love dispersing the frightful scene. A glow pulsating from Angeletta's body still burning in the fire pit slowly rose to join the Light. A Heavenly peace infused Jenny as she realized, "There's a man standing in the air straight above me! ↗

— Judy Byington

#inspirational #multiple-personalities #nonfiction #psychology #true-crime

Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue. ↗

— Deborah Davis

#art