Always Quote by Michelle Gagnon

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

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

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 love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

— Jonathan Franzen

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

— Lynne Tillman

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms…

— Emily Susan Rapp

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

— Colson Whitehead

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 that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

— Rick Moody

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo…

— Rachel Johnson

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in.

— Rich Cohen