The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between. - J.W. Lord
Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting. - Susan Reynolds
This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that. - Kurt Vonnegut
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. - William Zinsser
Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind. - Kelly Cherry
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. - Jo Deurbrouck
I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth. - Michael M. Thomas
Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic. - A.D. Posey
The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. - Mark Twain