Books Quote by Celeste Ng

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

— Gary Shteyngart

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

— Celeste Ng

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

— Chad Harbach

The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one victor. After…

— Celeste Ng

Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Fiction only creates friction with the ones you love.

— Ayjee Grogan

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind…

— Aimee Bender

Novels are longer than life.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

— Rose Wilder Lane

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

— James Frey