Always Quote by Joan Didion

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

— Colson Whitehead

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms…

— Emily Susan Rapp

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman

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

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 think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

— Celeste Ng

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

— Rick Bass

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure.…

— Roxane Gay

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

— Chad Harbach