I love the newspaper. I love reading fiction.

I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local…

— James Lileks

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece…

— Jill Abramson

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

— Lily King

“I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level.…

— Jarod Kintz

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is…

— Amy Tan

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic…

— Ann Patchett

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like…

— Charles Stross

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about…

— Kevin Wilson

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes,…

— George R. R. Martin

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going…

— Samuel R. Delany

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was…

— Jim Thompson

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that…

— Edmund White

“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens…

— Siri Hustvedt

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel…

— Ann Patchett