Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim LaHaye

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

Anne Lamott

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

Andy Richter

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

Cory Monteith

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

Akhil Sharma

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Chris Abani

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Jim Murphy

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

Candice Millard

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

Anthony Marra

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.