Enjoy Quote by Jonathan Franzen

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

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

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative…

— Judith Krantz

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

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

— Lynne Tillman

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.…

— Debra Monroe

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

— Peter Morgan

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd…

— Cynthia Kadohata

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

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

— Joan Didion