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Fiction And Nonfiction Quotes

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 wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning. Arundhati Roy
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is... Arundhati Roy
Mark Twain quote: "The difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction..."
The difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction has to be believable. Mark Twain
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. Joan D. Vinge
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers. Hope Davis
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done. Carrie Brownstein
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? Tanith Lee
Kinky Friedman quote: "There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I..."
There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 Kinky Friedman
Jennifer Weiner quote: "Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best..."
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. Jennifer Weiner
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. Penelope Lively
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. Stephen King
Alan Moore quote: "Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the..."
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. Alan Moore
Peter Matthiessen quote: "I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in..."
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. Peter Matthiessen
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. James Rollins
Erica Jong quote: "It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously."
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. Erica Jong

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