Better off Quote by John Gimlette

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was…

— V. S. Naipaul

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is…

— Paul Theroux

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

— Kate Grenville

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

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like…

— Charles Stross

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 love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

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

As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the…

— John D'Agata