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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
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Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story
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Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
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I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
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I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.
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I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
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The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.
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There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land
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Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.
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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
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He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
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I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
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I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.
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I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.
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