Boundaries Quote by Leslie Jamison

I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.

— Uzodinma Iweala

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a…

— Francisco Goldman

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

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

— Norman Lock

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

Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking…

— Marjorie Liu

I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels, if I…

— Carol Drinkwater

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my…

— Scott Turow

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 don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a…

— John Irving

Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when…

— Jonathan Gottschall

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