Fiction Quote by Peter Matthiessen

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

— David Morrell

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

— Rick Bass

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

— E. O. Wilson

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

— Ben Lerner

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

— Martine Syms

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

— Chad Harbach

You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

— Lisa Jewell

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

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

— Tom Rachman

“If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong.”

— Jamie Ford

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh