Abstract Quote by Andrew Lam

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

— Sefi Atta

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person.…

— John Ralston Saul

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

— Arundhati Roy

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work…

— Chaim Potok

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

— Rob Chapman

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

— Douglas Coupland

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to…

— Alain de Botton

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich