Rick Bass Quotes

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

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• The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

  

  Ovid
  • Best
  • Bold
  • Succeeds

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

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Fiction
  • Only
  • Nonfiction

• I tend to read non-fiction.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Read
  • Tend
  • Nonfiction

• Nothing succeeds like address.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Succeeds

• I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Together
  • Happy

• When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Trust
  • Fail
  • Succeeds

• By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Consequence
  • Discourse
  • Succeeds

• Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

  

  Sophocles
  • Remember
  • Succeeds
  • Toil

• Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Produce
  • Spirits
  • Succeeds

• I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • People
  • Writing
  • Kind

• Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Living
  • Succeeds
  • Faith In God

• The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Rest
  • Optimistic
  • Intellect

• When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Company
  • Succeeds
  • Startup

• As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for 48 years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work – but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!

  

  Barbara Gittings
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Writer
  • Consider
  • Nonfiction

• If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Kids
  • Thing
  • Gratifying

• A fictional character living in a nonfiction world.

  

  M. William Phelps
  • World
  • Character
  • Nonfiction

• The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

  

  Sharlto Copley
  • Character
  • Accent
  • Informs

• People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Always
  • Legend

• In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Political

• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Midwest

• Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

  

  Rick Bass
  • Succeeds
  • Nonfiction
  • Gratifying