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

— Colson Whitehead

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach

One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only…

— Max Joseph

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the…

— Nicholas Sparks

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as…

— Ted Genoways

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

— Penelope Lively

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

— Lynne Tillman

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

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

— Francine du Plessix Gray