Emotion Quote by Chelsea Martin

When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with…

— Oscar Hijuelos

All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say…

— George R. R. Martin

Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about…

— Elif Batuman

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

— Rick Bass

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

I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The…

— Ron Currie Jr

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,…

— Emily Susan Rapp

The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more intellectual layer…

— Ted Genoways

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can…

— George Saunders

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

— Anonymous