Complexity Quote by Helen Humphreys

The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and…

— Alix Kates Shulman

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

— Tracy Kidder

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be…

— Stephen King

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

— Arundhati Roy

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to…

— Amitava Kumar

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

— Aaron Belz

The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and…

— Lisa Joy

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm…

— Leslie Jamison