538 Quotes About Nonfiction

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas)

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

The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained.

What you believe can change your experience.

The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.