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“One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.”

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Author:Isabelle Huppert

“[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.”

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Author:MC Lyte

“When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.”

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Author:Jeff Feuerzeig

“Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.”

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Author:Paul Kane

“Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them started, maybe. And even if it didn't, at least they'd own that one. So that's a serious problem.”

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Author:James W. Loewen

“I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.”

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Author:Andrew Lam

“In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .”

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Author:Andrew Lam

“Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.”

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Author:Joe Berlinger

“I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again.”

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Author:Stephen Hawking

“My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.”

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Author:Brett Morgen

“I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.”

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Author:Brett Morgen

“There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.”

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Author:E. L. Doctorow

“I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.”

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Author:Errol Morris

“I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.”

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Author:Lloyd Alexander

“I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.”

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Author:Nicholson Baker

“The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.”

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Author:Yann Martel

“The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.”

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Author:Ian Mcewan

“My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.”

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Author:Rachel Nichols

“I tend to read non-fiction.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.”

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Author:James Patterson

“A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.”

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Author:Chaim Potok

“I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.”

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Author:Nile Rodgers

“Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.”

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Author:Jon Scieszka

“The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.”

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Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

“I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.”

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Author:Daniel Tammet

“Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.”

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Author:Meredith Vieira

“I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.”

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Author:Nick Hornby

“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.”

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Author:Geraldine Brooks

“(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.”

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Author:Nick Hornby

“There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.”

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Author:Nick Flynn

“There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979”

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Author:Kinky Friedman

“There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who’s speaking. There’s all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.”

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Author:Ted Dekker

“In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.”

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Author:Meg Cabot

“One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.”

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Book:Our Tragic Universe

Source: Our Tragic Universe

“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

“Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.”

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Book:Adventures in the Dream Trade

Source: Adventures in the Dream Trade

“Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“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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Book:Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

“In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.”

“I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.”

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Author:Sloane Crosley

“What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative”

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Author:Tracy Kidder

“I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.”

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Author:Peter Benchley

“For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.”

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Author:Iris Chang

“I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.”

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Author:Gale Anne Hurd

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