My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
quote by Rick Moody
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
quote by Orson Scott Card
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Four Letter 'Work' Song
Work me up, work me out, work me flip side down.
Work me here, work me there, work me with renown.
Work me hot, work me greedy,
work me through and through.
Work me to the very marrow,
work me just like I'd work you.
Work me proud, work me late,
work me do not hesitate.
Won't you let me work for you?
Work me til I'm black and blue.
Work me steady, work me needy, work me to a lather.
Work me til my backbone breaks, and the buzzards gather.
Work me in, work me under, work me til I bleed,
Work me over red hot coals, work me like a boss in need.
Work me nasty, work me silly, work me through the clover.
Up down, 'n' in between, into a slipknot sweet Jehovah.
Work me, work me, go ahead.
Work me, work me, til I'm dead.
Buddy Bee Anthony
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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
quote by Jonathan Coe
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I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
quote by Tim LaHaye
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I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
quote by Dirk Benedict
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
quote by E.L. Doctorow
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I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
quote by Jonathan Franzen
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
quote by Laura Hillenbrand
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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
quote by Joseph Wambaugh
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I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
quote by Joseph Wambaugh
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In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
quote by Peter Matthiessen
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I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
quote by Louise Brown
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I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
quote by Anne Lamott
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
quote by Bruce Sterling
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I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
quote by Peter Matthiessen
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Payment
A tortuous path of neurons arced a call: ‘Awake! ’
I did; in rising, peering, stretching, bearing,
Pained anticipation saw it all:
Foretold, another filthy day.
I drew the drape: diluvian lay the ground
Beneath a lazy leaden cloud – apissing out
The puddles; irksome on the roof –
The drumming drops of bitter glee
Were hounding out a hapless me –
Reinforcing doubt that I am sound.
I left the house
to go to work
to earn a crust
without a perk
then on to bust
another straining vessel.
Trudging on thro’ mud and clay, I pondered:
‘Why a drought of happy times?
Auspicious climes were
Old and fusty books
Atop a dusty shelf
Inside a morgue-of-a-room,
Somewhere in a long-forgotten library
Down a lane without a way.’
I thought again: ‘And still I pay.’
Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2010
O how I
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Work, Sleep, Work, Sleep, Work
Work, sleep, work, sleep,
Work, sleep, work, sleep,
Work, sleep, work, sleep,
Work:
Work, sleep, work, sleep,
Work, sleep, work, sleep,
Work, sleep, work, sleep,
Work.
Oh free me please with gentle ease
From work, sleep, work, sleep, work!
This odium, pounding tedium
Of my work, sleep, work, sleep, work.
Just whisk me off to lands afar
From work, sleep, work, sleep, work -
That grinding train of rhythmic pain
Called ‘Work, sleep, work, sleep, work.’
Poor neural circuits fizzle and pop
In work, sleep, work, sleep, work,
In trying to make some sense of all this
Work, sleep, work, sleep, work.
But Hark! I see a golden gleam -
A saving spirit of hope:
‘You’re fired! ’ He screams. What news to bear,
This wondrous hangman’s rope!
So now I’m free, released from all this
Work, sleep, work, sleep, work -
Eternal peace and rest for me, no
Work, sleep, work, sleep, work.
poem by Mark R Slaughter
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I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
quote by Fred Savage
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