“Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.” BigsFictionDistinctionArbitraryNon Fiction Author:Farley Mowat
“Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.” ThinkingImportantRealWholeStoriesUnderstandingEffortFictionDistinctionRemoveTruestMidwife Author:Arundhati Roy
“I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.” ThinkingKnowsRealStoriesHappensFictionEventsDistinctionEmbeddedParables Author:William P. Young
“Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.” FictionSmartLowsCriticismBlindDustDryDistinctionSentimentalGeekArchesPulpBorges Author:John Hodgman
“Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.” FictionAimMarketingMeaningfulMemoirDistinctionCategoriesDeceiving Author:Emily Gould
“In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.” MindFictionDistinctionDocumentariesGood Movie Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.” PersonsDoeSometimesFormBitsFictionMemoirIntimateDistinction Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.” PeopleThinkingSometimesFictionElementsTheaterOriginalsScience FictionDistinctionPublishingAdaptationArbitraryVenues Author:Edward Einhorn
“I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).” PeopleThinkingWantWritingStillsIdeasReasonTermInterestingRoomsFictionMagazinesProseDistinctionFlashContributors Author:Matthea Harvey
“The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.” TwoLiteratureFictionStupidGenreStreamsDistinctionSplitsPerniciousDichotomyFeuds Author:George R. R. Martin