Accurate Quote by Grace Paley

Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me…

— Vito Acconci

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road…

— Jonathan Franzen

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person.…

— John Ralston Saul

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

— Karen Russell

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything…

— Will Self

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships;…

— Kelly Cherry

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of…

— John Updike