Battles Quote by Celeste Ng

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better....…

— William Zinsser

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

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

— Rick Bass

Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words!

— Kameron Hurley

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

— Don DeLillo

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative...A…

— E.L. Doctorow

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

— Rose Wilder Lane

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

— Deborah Eisenberg

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

— Ann Patchett

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

— Joan Didion