Fiction Quote by Rick Bass

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

— Ann Patchett

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is…

— Amy Bloom

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

— Colson Whitehead

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

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

— Ann Patchett

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

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

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

— Chad Harbach

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

— Leigh Newman

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

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

— Lynne Tillman