Bookshelves Quote by Arundhati Roy

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to…

— Yann Martel

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

— Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to…

— Yann Martel

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

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

— Chad Harbach

I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important…

— Frederick Lenz

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

— James Rollins

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get…

— A. Scott Berg

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

— Peter Morgan

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end…

— Stephen King

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

— Tanith Lee

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and…

— Hope Davis

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between…

— Nawal El Saadawi

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

— William T. Vollmann