Anxiety Quote by Adam Ross

It puzzles me when writers say they can't read fiction when they're writing fiction because they don't want to be influenced. I'm totally open…

— Laura van den Berg

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm such a…

— Heidi Julavits

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.…

— Christopher Meledandri

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

Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.

— Adam Ross

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

— Simon Mawer

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

— David Quammen

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my…

— Katherine Paterson

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy…

— Gary Shteyngart