Quotes About Fiction Vs Nonfiction

#1. I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

Sunny

#2. I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Tom Bissell

#3. Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

Joyce Rachelle

#4. At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

William T. Vollmann

#5. But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Andy Richter

#6. I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

Ayelet Waldman

#7. Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

Roxane Gay

#9. different genres. To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion gardening

Dale Mayer

#10. I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

Michelle Gagnon

#11. I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

Jen Lancaster

#12. Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.

Kylene Beers

#13. Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

A.D. Posey

#14. Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Abraham Verghese

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

Rick Bass

#16. In certain fiction, she perceives truths that she rarely finds in nonfiction; therefore, in her quest to better understand the world and the meaning of her life, she reads those novels that suggest a world of wonders, dark and light, forever unfolding for eyes willing to see.

Dean Koontz

#17. Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Peter Morgan

#18. The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between.

J.W. Lord

#19. Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

Christina Scalise

#20. The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

Lisa Scottoline

#21. I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

Cassandra Clare

#22. Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

David Mitchell

#23. When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Irvine Welsh

#24. I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Irvine Welsh

#25. Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

Susan Reynolds

#26. I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

Michael M. Thomas

#27. I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Sandra Cisneros

#28. In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

#29. He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Stephen King

#30. Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Chad Harbach

#31. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Bruno Bettelheim

#32. Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

James Frey