Quotes About Creative Nonfiction

#1. 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?'

Marya Hornbacher

#2. 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.

Nawal El Saadawi

#3. Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Jo Deurbrouck

#4. 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."

Lee Gutkind

#5. Ask me a question about paparazzi, and I get so heated. And I feel so bad for young kids of celebrities. My nieces and nephews get yelled at, and I'm like, 'You are yelling at a 2-year-old.'

Kendall Jenner

#6. 'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Lilly Wachowski

#7. Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

Debbie Tosun Kilday

#8. I feel really comfortable when it's just me and a guitar. It's special and more vulnerable to strip it down. It can be scary, but it's also empowering.

Tori Kelly

#9. 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.

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. He didn't just want to fuck her, he didn't just want her in his bed ...
He wanted her on the back of his bike.
Yeah, he wanted to lay claim to Danielle West, ink his name on her body and slap an old lady patch on her ass. And worse, he wanted the world to know it.

Madeline Sheehan

#11. I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

David Rockefeller

#12. 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.

John Gimlette

#13. I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.

Stewart O'Nan

#14. Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

Rudolf Virchow

#15. The key ideas are simple. Find your own signature and stick to it, and follow a consistent routine. Feel it instead of trying to do it. Improve your visual interpretation of the speed and line of your putt, and roll the ball without wasting too much time and letting that visualization deteriorate.

Dave Stockton

#16. As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#17. 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.

Judith Krantz

#18. My Wish
is to fall
cranium over Converse
in dizzy daydream-worthy
love.

Sarah Tregay