Quotes on Fiction And Nonfiction

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 get to emotional and psychological truths.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

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

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.