Fiction Quote by Ann Patchett

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

— Ann Patchett

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

— Rick Bass

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.”

— Marianne Cushing

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

— Leigh Newman

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

— John Cheever

Writing a book is so much harder than I imagined.

— Eva Gutowski

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

Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.

— Lloyd Alexander

Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.

— Aubrey Plaza

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

— Rick Riordan