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Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

by Mark Kramer

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Paper Towns by John Green

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There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

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“This strength of feeling over classic stories being ruined wasn't around when the Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist was remade into a film in which the lead character was cast in the image of a cartoon cat.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

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“She looked like someone who would sing the universe to sleep and bend time itself if it meant achieving her greatest wish.”
― Julie C. Dao, Broken Wish

tags: disney, fairytale, wish

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“We shouldn't be afraid of the obvious, because stories are about life, and life is full of obvious things like food and sleep and love and courage which you don't stop needing just because you're a good reader.”
― Philip Pullman, Dæmon Voices

tags: courage, food, life, love, obvious, reading, sleep, writing

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“We were coloreds or Negroes, and to call someone black was to invite a fistfight. But Malcolm remade the menace inherent in that name into something mystical--Black Power; Black Is Beautiful; It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

tags: black-power, malcolm-x, the-atlantic

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“[Art] must reflect the world in all its brutality and beauty, not in hopes of changing it but in the mean and selfish desire to not be enrolled in its lie, to not be coopted by the television dreams, to not ignore the great crimes all around us.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

tags: art, black-author, history, malcolm-x, nonfiction

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