Creative Nonfiction Quotes

• Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful."

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  Lee Gutkind

  Creative Nonfiction   Blogging   Awareness  

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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• Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it can be misguided advice. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose

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  Laurie Alberts

  Writing   Cutting   Creative Nonfiction  

  Laurie Alberts (2010). “Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing”, p.1, Writer's Digest Books

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• To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

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  Nawal El Saadawi

  Art   Mean   Creative Nonfiction  

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• The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible.

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  Lee Gutkind

  Real   Ideas   Creative Nonfiction  

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• I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

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  Judith Krantz

  Fun   Writing   Creative Nonfiction  

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• When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?

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  Marya Hornbacher

  Teaching   Writing   Creative Nonfiction  

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• Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

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  Lee Gutkind

  Creative Nonfiction   Ideas   Interesting  

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• I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.

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  John Gimlette

  Strong   Writing   Feel Better  

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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