Books Quote by E. O. Wilson

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

— Ann Patchett

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

— Rick Bass

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

— Rich Cohen

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

— Eleanor Catton

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

— Laura van den Berg

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

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

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms…

— Emily Susan Rapp

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.

— Ishmael Beah