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Top 15 Lee Gutkind Quotes (2025 Update)

Lee Gutkind Quote: “Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.”

1. “Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what’s out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.”

2. “Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what’s out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “And there are two types of stories. One type is one’s own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.”

3. “And there are two types of stories. One type is one’s own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.”

— Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind Quote: “Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world – much more so than in fiction.”

4. “Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world – much more so than in fiction.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “My idea of a good time is sitting quietly with my own thoughts and not making eye contact with anyone.”

5. “My idea of a good time is sitting quietly with my own thoughts and not making eye contact with anyone.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.”

6. “The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.”

7. “The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “I have a lifetime of learning ahead of me. I apply many of the things I learned in school, but I’ve forgotten most. Random snippets of the rules come back to me, at times, but my mind will eventually eradicate them all, relearn them, and reinvent them.”

8. “I have a lifetime of learning ahead of me. I apply many of the things I learned in school, but I’ve forgotten most. Random snippets of the rules come back to me, at times, but my mind will eventually eradicate them all, relearn them, and reinvent them.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.”

9. “Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.”

10. “The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “Feeling more tired than I’d ever felt after work, I walked through the sliding glass doors leading to the small alley that separated the parking garage from the hospital. I usually experienced this passage as a sort of limbo: a seven-foot-long stretch of asphalt that got me to where I parked, a portal where tired nurses left as fresh ones entered. On that morning, though, I felt a breeze on my face as I stepped through the double doors and saw the day’s first light, and it hit me: I’m alive.”

11. “Feeling more tired than I’d ever felt after work, I walked through the sliding glass doors leading to the small alley that separated the parking garage from the hospital. I usually experienced this passage as a sort of limbo: a seven-foot-long stretch of asphalt that got me to where I parked, a portal where tired nurses left as fresh ones entered. On that morning, though, I felt a breeze on my face as I stepped through the double doors and saw the day’s first light, and it hit me: I’m alive.”

— Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind Quote: “I am learning how to let my yes be yes and my no mean no without the need to justify why I choose to say either.”

12. “I am learning how to let my yes be yes and my no mean no without the need to justify why I choose to say either.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.”

13. “There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don’t get read.”

14. “Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don’t get read.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “We pray, those of us who believe; those of us who don’t believe ask, Let me go quickly and peacefully into the night.”

15. “We pray, those of us who believe; those of us who don’t believe ask, Let me go quickly and peacefully into the night.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “Panic, as I said before, is the most contagious of all sicknesses.”

16. “Panic, as I said before, is the most contagious of all sicknesses.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “Medication cannot cure you of depression. Like a seatbelt, it can save your life – but a seatbelt never brought joy to anyone’s heart. A seatbelt never put a skip in a step.”

17. “Medication cannot cure you of depression. Like a seatbelt, it can save your life – but a seatbelt never brought joy to anyone’s heart. A seatbelt never put a skip in a step.”

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Lee Gutkind Quote: “Miracles aren’t always awe inspiring. They aren’t always beautiful and obvious. Sometimes they’re sticky and gross. Sometimes they’re painful and full of loss. Sometimes you’ll miss them if you blink. My eyes are wide open today.”

18. “Miracles aren’t always awe inspiring. They aren’t always beautiful and obvious. Sometimes they’re sticky and gross. Sometimes they’re painful and full of loss. Sometimes you’ll miss them if you blink. My eyes are wide open today.”

— Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind Quote: “Carl Jung: “Life is an experiment in consciousness that most people fail.”

19. “Carl Jung: “Life is an experiment in consciousness that most people fail.”

— Lee Gutkind

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