Certain Quote by Junot Diaz

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're…

— Samuel Hynes

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming…

— Armistead Maupin

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

— Arthur Phillips

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

— Akhil Sharma

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or…

— George R. R. Martin

“FICTION is a series of unintended coincidence,confabulation,and quasi-lucid lying made plausible enough for an author and a reader to cohabitate for a secret, brief…

— J.D. Brayton

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges…

— Muriel Spark

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

— John McGahern

“The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.”

— Mark Twain