Non fiction Quote by Robert Christgau

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I tend to read non-fiction.

— Gary Oldman

I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just…

— David Foster Wallace

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

— John Gimlette

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person.…

— John Ralston Saul

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

— Richard Hell

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

— W. P. Kinsella

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

— Arundhati Roy

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory…

— Sefi Atta

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

— William Gibson