Non fiction Quote by Ayn Rand

I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It…

— David Shields

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

“You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery…

— Raymond Federman

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of…

— Oscar Wilde

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

— Isaac Asimov

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

— Laila Lalami

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close…

— J. G. Ballard

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

— Terence McKenna

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

— Jill Ker Conway