Fiction And Nonfiction Quotes
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I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.
— Michael M. Thomas
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
— Bruno Bettelheim
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
— Anne Lamott
I read nonfiction.She reared back as if offended. — Anne Osterlund
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
— David A. Adler
Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!
— Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
— James Frey
One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.
— Matthew Pearl
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
— Arundhati Roy
I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.
— Scott McClanahan
I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.
— Robert M. Edsel
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.
— William T. Vollmann
Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.
— Kylene Beers
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
— Tom Wolfe
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
— Leonard Mlodinow
Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
— Peter Morgan
Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.
— A.D. Posey
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
— Lisa Scottoline
People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
— Joyce Rachelle
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
— Peter Matthiessen
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
— Todd Strasser
The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
— Mark Twain
Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.
— David Mitchell
Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!
— Christina Scalise
Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.
— Ken Andersen
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
— Lucy Walker
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
— Kathleen Rooney
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
— Irvine Welsh
I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.
— Gabrielle Zevin
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
— E.L. Doctorow
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
— Rick Bass
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
— Garth Greenwell
Everyone writes the book he or she loves to read. Great authors write the books others love to read.
— Chuck Miceli