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10 NONFICTION Writing Quotes!

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Jyssica Schwartz
3 min readJan 14, 2020

“Writing nonfiction means I tell people’s stories for them, not because they’re special but because we all are.”
— Jo Deurbrouck, award-winning author of Anything Worth Doing.

“You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, American novelist and freelance journalist, author of the award-winning novel Fight Club and his newest nonfiction book, Consider This.

“In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don’t have that luxury.”

— Tony Robbins, life coach, philanthropist, and author of Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook.

“I’m a reluctant writer of nonfiction, in part because I don’t really feel qualified.”

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Jyssica Schwartz
Jyssica Schwartz

Written by Jyssica Schwartz

Manging editor. entrepreneur, writer, editor, cat lover, weirdo, optimist. Author of “Write. Get Paid. Repeat.” & “Concept to Conclusion.” jyssicaschwartz.com

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