Top 1200 Creative Nonfiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

I had a fascination with the back side of the business, and the creative process always fascinated me. Vince gave me an opportunity in '98 to sit in the production meetings. He would talk creative with me, and we had this creative rapport.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

If I'm writing and doing music celebrating the Creator, who is the most creative being in the world - I mean, when you look at nature and when you look at all of the beautiful created things - why should I be limited in expressing myself? He's creative, so why shouldn't my music be creative, too?

Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

If you're applying for a creative position, don't be afraid to get a little creative on your resume.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.

I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not a memoir. One reason is the great love of novels that I keep droning on about. I've always loved reading novels. I've wanted to write novels since I was little. I started my first novel when I was seven.I don't have the same connection to memoir or nonfiction or essays. Writing nonfiction makes me feel a little bit as if I'm producing a product I don't consume - it's a really alienating feeling.

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

Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

For basically three years, I was doing 'Catfish' and 'We Are Your Friends' at the same time - it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you're in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.

I read a ton of nonfiction. I tend to read about a lot of very extreme situations, life-or-death situations. I'm very interested in books about Arctic exploration or about doomed Apollo missions. I tend to read a lot of nonfiction that's sort of hyperbolic and visceral. And then I kind of draw on my own personal experiences and my own sort of generic life experience, and I kind of try to feed my day-to-day reality that I have with sort of high stakes reference points that I read about. They're things everyone can relate to.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

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

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

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Everyone is creative, but me and my colleagues are using a different definition of creativity than is implied when people say they are not creative. We believe that people are being creative if they are bringing out their highest inner resources to improve their lives and those around them. Those who are living from their core, and doing what they are destined to do, are being creative, no matter how mundane their work or profession might seem.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.

There is people who make stuff with words. There is people who make stuff with programs. And I really believe that that whole creative culture, people didn't realize how creative programming is. And anybody who's done it of course knows that not only is it creative, but it's incredibly absorbing.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

Nonfiction is never going to die.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.