Believe Quote by Georgia Heard

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

— Elizabeth Berg

I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom…

— Michelle Gagnon

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by…

— Stacy Schiff

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke…

— Joan Didion

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

— Colson Whitehead

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

— Rick Moody

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

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

— Ivana Trump

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie…

— Thomas Lennon

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

— Joan Didion