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“They use virtual reality of every day devices and things through hacking them and invisibly connecting them to your body and brain to create fake interactions between you and unknown people for deceit purposes.”

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Book:Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

“They manipulate weather and send a lightning to a specific area or they shock electrically the target person. They enter the human body through electricity and they either cause illness or death or read the thoughts of the mind or alter the behavior.”

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Book:Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

“Once I believed in reality. Now I don't know what to believe anymore. I even doubt the environment thing. Do they want to spread electricity to be able to sabotage & kill silently anyone posing "threat" to their "good" fame?”

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Book:Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

“They remotely stimulate the private parts to make you look pervert. They talk in the head to make you seem mentally ill. They register thoughts as your own but they are from a program you watch on tv.”

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Book:Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

“In a new friendship it can be so important to know what someone else has experienced before you assume that your experience is monolithic”

Friendship Self Help Nonfiction

Book:You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult

Source: You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult

“When it comes to friendships, QUALITY is much more important than QUANTITY.”

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Book:Chaos: Overcoming the Overwhelming

Source: Chaos: Overcoming the Overwhelming

“The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation.”

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Book:Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Source: Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

“Justice is not a distant idea or an abstract concept; it is something we must actively pursue, embody, and fight for every day”

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Author:Sarah Jaffe

“Changes in ideas and values also result from work done by writers, scholars, public intellectuals, social activists, and participants in social media.”

Inspirational Activism Nonfiction

Book:Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.”

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Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.”

Book Brain Nonfiction

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.”

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Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“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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Author:James Rollins

“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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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.”

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Author:Ben Mezrich

“In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.”

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Author:Ben Mezrich

“Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.”

Want Should Mind Two Successful Five Pieces Reader Just One Nonfiction Provocative

Author:William Zinsser

“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”

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Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.”

Artist Nonfiction

Author:Jim Sanborn

“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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Author:Lucy Walker

“One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't get through these books ... If people don't finish your book, then they don't know what you're talking about.”

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Author:Thomas Cahill

“I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.”

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Author:Sunny

“I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.”

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Author:Peter Matthiessen

“I don't have time to read nonfiction.”

Nonfiction

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.”

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Author:Merlin Mann

“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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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.”

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Author:Chad Harbach

“Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“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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Author:Arundhati Roy

“the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.”

Art Challenges Nonfiction

Book:The Penguin book of women's lives

Source: The Penguin book of women's lives

“In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.”

Sin Nonfiction Omission

Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.”

Moments Reality Talking Nonfiction

Author:David Shields

“My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.”

“One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”

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Author:James Patterson

“Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.”

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Author:Mortimer Adler

“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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Author:A. Scott Berg

“I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.”

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Author:Julian Assange

“I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.”

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Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“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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Author:Peter Morgan

“Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.”

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Author:Peter Morgan

“Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.”

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Author:Cassandra Clare

“I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

“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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Author:Lee Gutkind

“Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world - much more so than in fiction.”

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Author:Lee Gutkind

“And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.”

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Author:Lee Gutkind

“The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.”

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Author:Lee Gutkind

“I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.”

Ideas Nonfiction

Author:Will Hobbs

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