Fiction Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

— Arthur Phillips

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and…

— Paul Auster

The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus…

— Danielle Trussoni

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

— Augusten Burroughs

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

— Steve Bisley

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

— Sheila Heti

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

— Tom Stoppard