Nonfictional Prose Quotes & Sayings

Remember, we know where you sleep, Jon said softly. — George R R Martin

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.' — Nina Easton

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on. — Judith Jamison

Damn it, Jim, I'm a botanist, not a chemist! — Andy Weir

The problem with dating a model is they won't go out with you if your cars color doesn't match their outfit. — Dane Cook

I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others. — William T. Vollmann

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway. — Anne McCaffrey

On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be. — Cynthia Kenyon

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', I CAN handle the truth. — Michael J. Fox

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment. — Scott Adams

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.' — Katherine Jenkins