Fiction Quote by Erica Jong

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

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

— Chad Harbach

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

— Colson Whitehead

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

— Anne Lamott

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

— Andy Richter

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of…

— William T. Vollmann

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

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