Aspect Quote by Lee Gutkind

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

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 is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is a world…

— Jennifer Egan

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited…

— Geraldine Brooks

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 find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

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

— Colson Whitehead

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

— Leonard Mlodinow

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

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

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more intellectual layer…

— Ted Genoways