Quotes About Writing Creative Nonfiction

#1. Somethings you know right away to be final- when you lose your last baby tooth ... Other times, you have to work out the milestone via subtraction, a math you do to assign significance, like when I figured out that I'd just blown through my last-ever wednesday with Mom on the day after she died.

Karen Russell

#2. The folder thick enough to contain a hundred headaches.

Alessandra Torre

#3. The first step is you have to say that you can.

Will Smith

#4. 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

#5. Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.

Mark Batterson

#6. I held on to his arm, which was belted securely around me, feeling safe because Dad was in charge and it was his hand that pulled the sun up each morning and down at night.

Jandy Nelson

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

Jo Deurbrouck

#8. In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

Brian Eno

#9. The actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Another vindication I had is the fact that I believed the Christian message and the gospel of the kingdom is good enough to fix the world's problems

Sunday Adelaja

#11. 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

#12. Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Jean Toomer

#13. You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#14. I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.

Gene Luen Yang

#15. 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

#16. The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real

Heather James

#17. It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

Laurie Halse Anderson