Quotes by Fiction And Nonfiction I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction. Anne Lamott fiction-and-nonfiction nonfiction fiction I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. Bruce Sterling fiction-and-nonfiction research writing I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. David Sedaris fiction-and-nonfiction book people I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say. Dirk Benedict fiction-and-nonfiction two book There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. E. L. Doctorow fiction-and-nonfiction narrative fiction It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. Erica Jong fiction-and-nonfiction nonfiction fiction I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. James Rollins fiction-and-nonfiction inspiration reading Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. Jonathan Coe fiction-and-nonfiction talent problem I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. Joseph Wambaugh fiction-and-nonfiction research giving I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas. Louise Brown diaspora fiction-and-nonfiction book In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. Peter Matthiessen fiction-and-nonfiction constraints telling-the-truth Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any of those things except with the added definition of intensified formal pressure. Robert Hass fiction-and-nonfiction pressure long