Easy Quote by Ann Patchett

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

— Rick Bass

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is…

— Amy Bloom

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

— Ann Patchett

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

— Colson Whitehead

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

— James Frey

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

— Rich Cohen

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the…

— Lisa Scottoline

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

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

— Andy Richter

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms…

— Emily Susan Rapp