I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter MatthiessenFiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Rick BassFantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
Rod SterlingNon fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.
Justin AlcalaFiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
Helen Dunmore