Being real Quote by Yann Martel

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to…

— Yann Martel

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

— Arundhati Roy

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history of the…

— Margaret Atwood

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is…

— Arundhati Roy

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric,…

— Camilla Gibb

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

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

— Anonymous

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

— Joyce Carol Oates

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

— Peter Morgan