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Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
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I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
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Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
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Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
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everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
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